Re: My first trans into Meynian

(Not sure if the first copy of this got through, danged mail prog
seems to be having a bit of an "I am a fish" morning...)

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 00:55:43 -0500, I wrote:

> Here is a translation into Meynian of a poem that appeared (fairly) recently on the
list.

There are a few things I omitted or forgot or otherwise screwed up in that post.  I've
removed a lot of 'clunky' constructions that weren't really needed, most notably the
impersonalised antiergative(?) verbs in lines 3 and 4 (yurgh bleah!).  I've also tidied
my slightly shoddy phonetic transcription.  Although it's more consistent, I'm still
not overly happy with line 2; I keep feeling it really ought to use the super-ergative.

Here's a corrected version, I've also replaced <{> with the more usual <&> in the
transcription in an attempt to make it scan more easiliy.  I know it makes it leave X-
Sampa, but it *does* also make it approach sanity.

(I'm not sure that the /@U/ shouldn't be /oU/ as well, but that's a whole other
discussion, and depends on the vowel I use in teh word {home}.  Lars?  Fabian?  And?
I'm going to have to call on one of you guys again to tell me how I speak...)

ERG - Ergative
NEG - Negative
JUSS - Jussive (Somewhere between Optative and Imperitive)
ABS - Absolute
REL - Relative Clause marker (+/- equivalent to "that"/"who")
REFL - Reflexive / Middle / Mediopassive and all that good stuff
GEN - Genetive, also used to link adverbs to verbs

AN MEI NA GEDTHIZOAM:

1.
An  mei na  gedthizoam    oa  loa an  dáemaw dáemat      oa  tíheighi
ERG 1P  NEG await.JUSS.1P ABS REL ERG sign   indicate.3P ABS 3P.REFL
/An meI nA getTIts@Um @U l@U An d&:mAB d&:mAt @U tI:xeIjI/

2.
An  meiheighi dáemazoam        oa  sháteiw
ERG 1P.REFL   indicate.JUSS.1P ABS joy
/An meIxeIjI d&:mAts@Um @U SA:teIB/

3.
An  mei na  baghaizoam   chiuphuaheshauc oa  aegás
ERG 1P  NEG fear.JUSS.1P tomorrow.GEN    ABS evil
/An meI nA bAjaIts@Um tSUf@xeSOk @U &gA:s/

4.
An  mei chiu dierchezoam   chiudeiheshauc oa  phéisaen
ERG 1P  and  watch.JUSS.1P wonder.GEN     ABS goodness
/An meI tSU dir\tSets@Um tSUdeIxeSOk @U fe:Is&n/