Re: CHATter: Re: Hanuman Mantra (was Re: I'm back!)

czHANg wrote:
>    OBCONLANG: Not that I am above this sorta of humour if it has some
>off-beat-but-redeemin' value (i.e. I am gonna translate "Yes, life sucks.
So
>when do I coum?" into Lego sometime. Anyone else wanna translate this pithy
>statement into their conlangs???).

Lead us not into temptation.....
but.... you asked for it:
Kash (very colloq.):  hayi, kayini yalum-- ende, kanju mawuwi?
   ['haj, 'kajni ja'lum // EndE, 'kandZu ma'wi:]
Lit. yes, the-living licks, (otherwise the same)

However, this fails to convey the disagreeable/unpleasant connotations of
the Engl. "X sucks", since the Kash, like some Engl. speakers who indulge in
the practice, consider it quite pleasant.......

I wonder if  Wm. Safire will ever investigate the origin of the phrase, in
his weekly NYTimes article.....