Re: Conlang T-Shirt Correction

On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 20:53:36 +0200 Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...>
writes:
> On 21 Oct, Steg wrote:
> <snip>
 >I think someone said they're looking for Hebrew?  An Israeli would
> >probably know better, but:
> >leshonkha holekhet poh
> >("your language goes here")
> >looks okay to me.
> It's grammatical, Steg, but the connotation is something else. ;-)
> Literally, it means "your (masculine singular)  tongue walks (or
> "goes") right here".
> Although "lashon" (=tongue) is commonly used to refer to "language"
> in Hebrew,
> (as in English [other langs ??]), I had my suspicions.
> When I asked my kids, they both said that this sentence  has more
> the
> sense of "your tongue goes right here to lick it" !
Eeep!  I guess i was thinking in "Heblish"....like _hhatakhti et hakitah_
for "i cut class"  :) , or _hhatamti betokh_ for "i signed in", some of
the favorite Heblish phrases in my highschool.

And then there's _zeh lo' "fair"!_, but that's a different story :-) .


-Stephen (Steg)
 "yehi hashva `imakh!"


> Dan Sulani
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a.
>
> A word is an awesome thing.
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