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Re: odd phrase/translation exercise

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...>
Date:Friday, February 11, 2005, 16:27
* Mark J. Reed said on 2005-02-10 01:10:58 +0100
> "I didn't know that you were a philosopher". > > It sounds like a typical waiter snarky comeback to a patron, [..]
evycel u: teìvycenn /evySel u\: tei)vy'Sen:/ e- vycel u: teì vyc:ah -enn not- 1s.know.that 2s love knowledge -doer Not particulary snarky.. maybe this: evycel u: iteìvycenn ^ where i- focuses |teìvycenn|: "I didn't know that you were a PHILOSOPHER" or even... evycel iu: teìvycenn "I didn't know that YOU were a philosopher" |teìvycenn| is a morph-copy of "philosopher" and so I'll use that until I know the proper word for philosopher, which would mean something like "lover of abstractions". Scientist is "seeker of patterns" or "seeker of understanding", engineer is "maker of patterns"... A |teìvycenn| would most likely be a nerd, bookworm or trivia-collector:) t.