Re: slowness...

Oskar Gudlaugsson <hr_oskar@...> writes:

> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 20:19:05 +1200, andrew <hobbit@...> wrote:
> >> >"If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!"
>
> Hmm, might make a good sentence to be translated into lots of different
> languages:
Took I while, I had to come up with words... :-)

In Tyl-Sjok:

Sys hon, njen Tyl-Sjok, kju je-sus, kel sys hon, njen, kjeng kju jo.

Lit.: If (the) goodness (of) Tyl-Sjok stretches up to Jesus, (it's)
goodness also stretches up to me.

sys     - pull
hon     - result(ative particle)
sys hon - reach, extend, stretch
njen    - good
tyl     - elegant by being symple, good
sjok    - language
kju     - go-to, in resultative meanung: arrive-at
je-sus  - Jesus
kel     - cause
kjeng   - also
jo      - me, I, we

Commas mark (sub)phrase ends.

The phrase

  sys hon ..X.. kju (hon) ..Y..

means `enough'.  It is comparable with `hinreichen' in German (`to
suffice', lit: `stretch up to').


**Henrik