Re: May you all...
| From: | Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 6, 2002, 15:28 |
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:44:59 -0800
Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...> wrote:
> "May you all live long! May it not rain on your
> heads forever!"
In my unnamed conlang with the far-too-long verbs, (and taking 'you all'
to be someone's idiolect for 'you' plural [In my dialect, and partly in
my idolect the plural is 'youse' /ju:z/ or /ju:iz/, or else 'ye' /ye:/ ;)
and 'you all' means 'all of youse/ye' ...])
Faur vúgauglyinga! Rau thiseghe huhulheidúnaunlyij!
.vv = a falling diphthong of vowels v & v
<Faur vúgauglyinga>
/f.au4 vu:g.augljiNA/
[faur (wre)vúg au+redup lyi nga]
long live___/ cont___/ optative 2pl
long may-ye-live
<Rau thiseghe huhulheidúnaunlyij>
/4.au TisEGE huhuK.Eidu:n.aunljiZ/
[Rau thi_seghe redup hulh ed i-affec+ún au+redup lyi j
neg. until-eternity future rain +imp +inessive. continu. opt 3pl*
not forever may-they-rain-at-you-continuously
"+imp" = inflection for impersonal verb
"+inessive" = infection for verb with indirect object in the inessive
"3pl*" = idiomatic usage of 3pl for impersonal vbs.
Stephen
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