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Re: Weekly Vocab 4

From:Robert B Wilson <han_solo55@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 22, 2003, 5:26
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... -- Robert Wilson (aka kuvazokad, eltirno, edeí...) http://kuvazokad.free.fr/ vkky vnkynvj vknyknj ykkv knvy? karkalone kontoko? kinsi rorotan kinsa nadas? baitta ke farzaiyai? qxracc pqqattiircx iia kxqqhwiiallccre? spreken þu viserdya? pake biru ka pa rede?