Re: Once upon a time
| From: | Sylvia Sotomayor <kelen@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 23, 2001, 16:43 |
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On Monday 23 July 2001 09:05, James Campbell wrote:
> A correspondent recently asked me how one would write 'Once upon a
> time...' in Jameld; as yet, I haven't settled on a suitable idiom.
>
> Are there equivalent expressions in your conlangs (or natlangs,
> e.g. Norwegian «Det var en gang» ['there was a time'])?
>
> Jamets the curious
Kélen has the aspect marker 'iélte' which marks narrative past, and
is usally only used once at the very beginning of the narrative. I
usually translate it as 'once upon a time'.
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Sylvia Sotomayor
sylvia1@ix.netcom.com
The Kélen language can be found at:
http://home.netcom.com/~sylvia1/Kelen/kelen.html
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