Re: Let Me Introduce Myself

Peter Ramsey wrote:
 I am a college graduate with a specialty in plant
>pathology, but for most of my life I have worked in construction, chiefly
as
>a carpenter.
Welcome to the list.
Carpentry is a Good and Honorable profession.  I sometimes wish I'd realized
that when younger.  The only problem with college-grad carpenters is that
the conversation tends to get in the way of the work. :-))


>Vash strongly reflects the
>two natural languages I know well, Russian and Spanish, as well as the
other
>languages I have studied. Still, Vash has, over the years, come to exist
>strongly on its own terms.
Our conlangs differ in just one letter-- mine is Kash, which means 'people',
and derives from the word 'living'.  It also benefits from contact with
Spanish but moreso with Indonesian.

>Below are the first three verses of the Babel Text:
>
>1. Ous vela varim samix shpaga modajat. Nam holsamix fokim bejt.
>2. Kan prasejtektanat varim i os, fädat növíj tala i Shinar-la ej dá növíj
>sejfasedat.
>3. Növíj an-a-andr djikat, "Venu, davu dzo vej koshim favu ej nim agno
>fatordu." Növíj koshta putjat llokdo kanna ijej bitjma llokdo pash.

As best I read it, it sounds good.  What are "x" and "ll"?  More, more!

You later wrote: >Any other time I have stated (or admitted) that I
have made up a language the responese has been "Oh, REALLY (edging away)>

Here:  "Oh, REALLY (drawing closer, and pestering with questions.)"

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