Re: You might be a conlanger if...

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:26:59AM -0500, Sally Caves wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
>
>
> >san huna!
>
> :):):)  Oh dear, I think Teoh has slipped away permanently into conlanger
> madness, and is now in the category of "past all hope."  Teoh, blink twice
> if you can understand me!  Teoh... Teoh...  san huna!
Shouldn't that be _san tse_? ;-)

_san tse_: singular Tatari Faran greeting
_san huna_: plural Tatari Faran greeting


[...]
> >>You can't watch Star Trek anymore because you simply can't accept the
> >>Universal Translator.
> >
> >huu ka kuera Sari tse na nari.
>
> Is that me?? :O
huu ka  kuera Sari  tse na  nari.
1sp ORG laugh Sally 2sp RCP COMPL
"I laugh at Sally."

Although that should've been:

huu ka  kuera Sari  tse ibi       nari.
1sp ORG laugh Sally 2sp with-POST COMPL
"I laugh with Sally."


[...]
> >huu ka: san tse!
   1sp ORG man 2sp
   "Hello!" Lit. "you person!"

> >san tara' ka: uat iu sei?
                 [?wat ?ju sej]
   man 3sp   ORG <mangling of "what you say?">

> >huu ka: tse ka  tsana sii?
           2sp ORG speak what
           "What did you say?"

> >san tara' ka: du ius pi' inkiris?
                 [du ?jus pi? in.ki4is]
                 <mangling of "do you speak English?">

> >huu ka: sii na  tse ka  surat?
           who RCP 2sp ORG seek
           "Whom do you seek?"

> >san tara' ka: o kei nefa main
                 [?o kej n&fa majn]
                 <mangling of "OK, nevermind">

> >huu ka: san tse sii?
           man 2sp who
           "Who are you?"

> >san tara' ka: *click*
                 <hangup>


> I understood a few of those. :)
> Better yet, you devise an answering machine message in your
> language.  About a decade ago, with much glee, and with the
> chortling help of my husband, we devised a Teonaht greeting,
> advising people to select 1 for Chris and 2 for Sally.  It lasted
> for about fifteen minutes, because it would be bad news if anybody
> from the department called me.  (But it was funny!)
[...]

Hmmm, now you're giving me ideas! :-P

The last wacky answering machine idea I had was to play the first few
bars of Beethoven's 5th symphony, and replace the long G at the end of
the first phrase with the leave-a-message beep (preferably at the
same pitch :-P).


> >buara ka tuharas fai. hesan so pamra itan.
>
> I agree.
;-)

buara   ka  tuharas         fai.
volcano ORG erupt_violently to_heavens-COMPL

hesan  so  pamra itan.
man-PL CVY run   stumbling-COMPL

"The volcano erupts violently to the heavens. The people run away."

(To get an idea of the particular type of eruption implied by
_tuharas_, see:

	http://www.educeth.ch/stromboli/glossary/icons/plinianb.jpg

).


[...]
> san tara'ka. *click*
Shouldn't that be _huu kei: *click*_ ?

	huu kei
	1sp ORG-FEM

:-P

OK, probably not much of the above made any sense, so to help you
droolin' conlanging masses^W^W^W I mean, *dear fellow conlangers*
decipher my subliminal messages, here's my shameless plug for Tatari
Faran's brand new website:

	http://conlang.eusebeia.dyndns.org/fara/

:-)


T

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