Re: Give us this day our daily translation

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Rik Roots wrote:

> > English:   Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
>
> I am fairly certain that this cannot be translated into Gevey, mainly
> because the language does not have a word for "soul" [this is
> deliberate on my part, if only to make the poetry more tolerable than
> Hallmark. For similar reasons, uhne (ye uhn) "heart" is used for the
> organ, and has nothing to do with emotions. Emotions, in Gevey, reside
> alongside the senses]
:-)  I use "soul" but in Chevraqis it's strongly associated with the word
for "shadow."  For similar reasons to yours, "heart" has nothing to do
with love or emotion, though one word for "alive" is derived from the
same morpheme as "heart" and "blood"; it can also be translated as "warm"
or "still having a pulse."

YHL