Re: SURVEY: Idiomatic Expressions In Your ConLang Or ConCulture

    *From:* Tom Chappell
    *Sent:* Thursday, November 17, 2005 8:57 PM
    *Subject:* Re: SURVEY: Idiomatic Expressions In Your ConLang Or
    ConCulture

    Can any of you give us near-equivalent ConLang expressions, like
    Charlie did for Senjecan?  That's the kind of thing I was after.  I
    hoped it would be fun.  Since nothing I have is more than a
    sketchlang so far, I'd have to improve something to do so myself.


But don't you "copper off" as we'd say here ("abkupfern", to copy
someone else's work for one's own purposes, i.e. steal intellectual
property) -- another idiom. I haven't worked on idioms and 'set phrases'
so much yet, so I cannot give you examples, except maybe _Angutáy!_ for
"Thank You" which is from _Ang cutáyin!_ resp. _Cutáyang!_ for "I
thank". Not very imaginative.

Cheers,
Carsten

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