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Re: me and my languages

From:Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>
Date:Sunday, September 9, 2001, 22:05
Jesse Bangs wrote:
> > Micheal: > > It's good to have you here. You certainly bring a good list of > credentials to the group! I am less than half your age (19), but I too > have been playing with language for most of my life.
Hi Mike! <Omole i vedanje> /Om"o:lIB@d"anj@/ "that you may be welcome" <Vedanjerde>. /B@danj"Erd@/ "you are welcomed" <Ovedanjelle>. /OB@danj"El:@/ "that you may make yourself at home" or just <Vedanje>. /B@d"anj@/ "welcome, at home". I'm 21 myself, and a total amateur when it comes to linguistics. My conlang Obrenje is still in the embryonic stage although it's been several months since I first got round to catch some of those fleeting undomesticated ideas in my head and put them on paper.
> My question to the group: do you guys have favorite phrases in your own > languages? What are they?
I don't have enough vocabulary to answer that, I'm afraid. =( In fact, i only have some 200 words so far, and I've found it excessively strenuous and unproductive to force myself to make more. Nevertheless, I quite like what I discovered lately when trying to figure out how to say "you're welcome" in reply to a thanking in Obrenje. Aside from the rather unmarked <kwomow> /kwO"mOw/ "willingly" and <u jekce garde> /Wj"Eks@g"ard@/ "anytime [lit. at any point in time]", and the formal <naqeze i caja> /naN"e:ZIh"a:ja/ "I liked the doing", I came up with the following, very personal version: <Cenow bla il, tjutje.> /sn"Owbla"Il cj"u:cj@/ "only for you, sweetie" You can quote that as my preliminary favorite expression. -- Christian Thalmann

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