Tun isut vospe.
You be-2s.present fool.
Vospe isut.
Fool be-2s.present.
Again, I'm not speaking of anyone on this list.
Im kardem kwen.
I have-1s.present dog.
Kwen kardem.
Dog have-1s.present.
I said that he smells terrible because he does.
Roger Mills palsalge:
>Christopher Wright wroght:
>.... Sturnan. I already knew
>> about pronoun dropping, but now, when you drop a pronoun and the object
of
>> the verb cannot use that pronoun, the object moves from SVO to OV. (This
>> is almost always the case with 1st or 2nd person sentences, especially
if
>> the object's an adjective.) For example:
>>
>> Tun isut vospe. == Vospe isut. (I'm not calling anyone a fool here; it
>> just came to mind.)
>> Im kardem kwen. == Kwen kardem. (I do, indeed, own a dog. He smells
>> terrible.)
>
>This look interesting, but I don't quite follow it. Especially the "dog"
>sentence-- where does "smells terrible' come from? Could you give an
>interlinear???
~Wright