Re: me and my languages
| From: | Douglas Koller, Latin & French <latinfrench@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 10, 2001, 20:04 |
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At 38, Douglas is slowly coasting into the 40s. Hmm, let's
see...Freshman year in high school would've been...1977? So
Géarthnuns is now 24 Jahre alt.
A fave word in Géarthnuns is "swö", an adverb which is used to
cushion a negative statement that might be unpleasant to the
listener. It often translates in English as "I'm sorry" or "I'm
afraid that...":
Fenfe la va helkedípsav ba nadíkadiz swö akraikh.
you-nom/neg present the-neg there-loc/neg BA enter swö be.permitted
I'm afraid you can't go in there.
I'm sorry, you can't go in there.
And, of course, there's "bwösemöls", "zenning out with the animals".
Kou
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