Re: CHAT: IDLE CHAT: Re: Spoilers for Verimak and Zeyli

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>Matt Pearson wrote:
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>> I suppose I should do a Tokana translation of "Full Fathom
>> Five".  They're a sea people, who associate the open ocean
>> with the afterlife, so it's certainly culturally appropriate.
>> Unfortunately there are no words for pearls or coral in
>> Tokana.  Guess I should invent some...
>>
>> Matt.
>
>Oh but obviously there are!  You just haven't found them yet,but you
>will.  Being lovers of the sea, the Tokana would not
>have failed to bring up many pearls from the ocean's depths.
>
>Sally
>
Now I want to see a translation of that passage into Merfolk-ese, which is
about the death of a mer-man stranded on land; "full fifty yards my father
lies; those are pebbles that were his eyes..."

Ed

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