Re: Weekly Vocab 4

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 22:13:23 -0400 Christopher Wright
<faceloran@...> writes:

> 1. slippery
zun

> The table is slippery.
padi zun.
table slippery

> 2. to spill
fos

> I spilled my soy milk[2] on it.
mekiz soj didades fosa endas
milk.PAT.DUAL (don't ask me why... unless perhaps the person in question
spilled a glass of soy milk and the carton...) soy LOC.3s.PAT spill.PRES
1s.AGNT

> 3. to vex
kapan (this word is borrowed from another language... i bet no one can
guess what it is...)

> This vexes me greatly.
kapana wiz intas areni
vex.PRES much DAT.1s this.AGNT

> 4. to curse (a full-blown spell or a swear word, your choice)
> I curse the glass that failed me.
curse a glass??? maybe if the glass was somehow sentient, but that's sort
of hard to imagine...

> 5. carpet
> My fine carpet is ruined.
hmm... no carpet... just wood, (stone) tile, or dirt floors...

> 6. sniffle
> *sniffle*
inf

> 7. to replace
> I cannot replace it.
irones dadi askaza entas
DAT.return 3s.AGNT able.not.PRES 1s.PAT
(the word order is very important here...)

> 8. heirloom
the idea of an heirloom doesn't really fit into kinsi rorotan culture,
but i'll try to translate the relationship:

> It is an heirloom from my great-grandmother's neice's daughter's
> husband.
> [Bonus points if you translate the relationship into one word.]
hmm... relationships like that are expressed (mostly) with numbers in
kinsi rorotan:
pakoriropokerazad
spouse.3.sibling.3-.masc

<skipping>
> 9. ghost
> His ghost will follow me for all my days.
> 10. bitter
> I shall die a bitter, hunted person. [If you are not a person,
> replace
> that word with an appropriate term.]
</skipping>

> ~Wright.
> [2] Soy milk is nothing compared to the real thing. Stuff squeezed
> from
> live cows is so appetizing, especially when described thus.
i'll take the stuff squeezed from live cows over the stuff that's related
to the ink used to print the newspaper i read this morning, especially
when soy milk actually tastes exactly like the newspaper...

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