Re: A hypothetical Sci-Fi conlang scenario
| From: | Tristan Mc Leay <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 28, 2004, 12:01 |
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Gary Shannon wrote:
>Their native language is Latin, but they picked up
>English vocabulary from the slave bosses. What would
>their pidgin be like if they used English vocabulary
>but purely Latin grammar?
>
>
Here's one prepared earlier:
Not sunt in Hefeni quia fuccant Helis vivarum.
Though I Don't know Latin and so my latinisation of some of the grammar
mightn't be that brilliant.
--
| Tristan. | To be nobody-but-yourself in a world
| kesuari@yahoo!.com.au | which is doing its best to, night and day,
| | to make you everybody else---
| | means to fight the hardest battle
| | which any human being can fight;
| | and never stop fighting.
| | --- E. E. Cummings, "A Miscellany"
| |
| | In the fight between you and the world,
| | back the world.
| | --- Franz Kafka,
| | "RS's 1974 Expectation of Days"