Re: TRANS: a child's exercise

Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:

> Ku  fa-sa-yawava'-tas-ki     fil ti-nani'-kwa, zi  fa-sa-yawava'-u-ki=20
> And past-be-happy-3SRat-INCH not G2-mother-my, but past-be-happy-I-INCH
> plassi     pi-kaisu'
> because.of G7-heat
> "And my mother was not happy, but I was happy because of the heat.
Oh ambiguity! The intended meaning was 'I was happy *that it rained*
because I was hot [and the rain cooled me]'. Otherwise, I see you've
respected the original text. About the fact of no birthday gifts...
are there celebrations of any kind? Do the Kass=ED celebrate any particul=
ar
dates in their lives? [Move to Conculture if need it!]

> This seems to be much longer than the original.  Watakass=ED has a
> lamentable tendancy towards lengthiness.
I don't think it's that long, and certainly not 'lamentably long'.
It's longer, probably, because you've chosen to have a quite restrictive
phonology *and* a (poly?)synthetic grammar with compulsory agreement mark=
s
(and of other types, like INCH... aspect?).


--Pablo Flores