Re: "Bird in Tree" translation

> >Here is a small translation of a dialogue into Nakiltipkaspimak.This
> >translation exercise was done on Conlangs_in_use a while ago.
In Hadwan [a final version, produced after a couple hours of work...]

-- Waisci skriwolon!
-- Is waizo coz.
-- Yis roskra k hala k sci hrai in.
-- Mai!  Halicor ca, ni?
(Due to the viles of email all the diacritics have been removed from this
bit.)

Which sounds like:
/wAI.'stsI  SkrI.'wU.lUn/
/IS  'wAI.dzu:  tsUdz/
/'y:.HIs  rU.'SkrQ:k@  hA'lQ:k@  stsI  xrAI  In/
/mAI  hAli:'tsUr tsA  nI/

[It's not, perhaps, very pretty, but I suppose euphony isn't a high priority
for monsters.]

And breaks down thus:
see .IMP-TR-2S tree  .DIM.ACC
wais-ci        skriwo-lo -n

1SG-NOM see-IND.TR-1S 3SG-NEUT-ACC
is      waiz   -o:    coz

bird.NOM red  .NOM=and beautiful.NOM=and be-PRES-IND-3S top.LOC in
y:is     roskr-a:  k   hal      -a:  k   sci            hrai    in

EXCL  beautiful.STAT-IND.INTR-3S 3SG-FEM-DAT NEG
mai   hal      -i:      -cor     ca:         ni

And most of the abbrevs are straightforward but just in case:
IMP = imperative
IND = indicative
TR = transitive
INTR = intransitive

<yis> "bird" is feminine, and <skriwolon> "tree-DIM" is neuter [I think all
diminutives are], hence the pronoun use.

BTW, is there any really *good* reason why my mailer (Outlook Express) has
recently decided that any "Re:" in the subject of a reply is safely
ignorable, and insists on adding its own in front of the subject?

Right now this is <Re:      Re: "Bird in Tree" translation>.

Eh.  I should be sleeping.

     *Muke!
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