Re: Conlangea Multilingual Phrasebook, 2nd Ed.

On Thursday 03 February 2005 21:50, Donald Boozer wrote:

 > First, "Topalwagit" for the "nice work" comment.
 > Excellent point on the longwindedness(?) of Elasin's
 > greetings.

I'm glad that I didn't offend you ... see, as I'm still a
student of English, I cannot always think of the effect my
wording will have. It happened to me, that people felt
offended although I didn't intend that.

 > On reflection, I should probably term what
 > I've done "Classical Elasin" or "Formal Elasin." Much
 > the same way that English has "It is a pleasure to
 > make your acquaintance" and "Hi!," what I'm putting
 > together now is the "It is a pleasure..." sorts of
 > phrases. I'm thinking of doing some vernaculars and
 > dialects (Telenin, Parelin, Varalsan) but that's in
 > the future.
 > For example, Aulemwatu shemul ebek! "It pleases me to
 > see you" could be condensed to something like Aulemwa
 > ("pleasing") or even Au! in the vernacular.

Same for me: Manáyang eváris ("I greet you" greet+1sg+AGT
2sg.PAT) -> Manisu! ("Hello!" greet.CAU) -> "Ah!" ("Hey!").

 > Incidentaly, I took a look at your Ayeri site. Very
 > nice front page! It makes me want to delve in deeper.

Heh, thank you. If you want to have a look at the grammar,
better look at ./ayeri_course.pdf! I've wanted to update
the HTML grammar between Christmas and the New Year
actually , but I haven't had the time & didn't get the hang
to do so.

Carsten

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