Re: THEORY: Natural language change (was Re: Charlie and I)

Matt Pearson wrote:
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> Steg Belsky wrote:
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> >> It means "If you can understand this, you know too much" :)
> >>Now *that* sounds like a perfect translation excersize! :)
> >
> >Ihkh eza-kaun dhaz, ezoi-yed sha'zid.
>
> Finally, a translation exercise I can do without having to look
> anything up:
>
> Tokana:   Aun mulhat te, ikoi iona tsuohante
Teonaht:
Ty aib  fy  tal pre,  ta   pre  fy  bo   nwetis.
If this you can know, then know you over much.

One of the few sentences in Teonaht that has a kind of English
straightforwardness.

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