Re: Trans: 'I love you'

Oops...sorry...the apostrophes stand for acute accent marks,
that is, long vowels.


Cian


On 04/22/2001 at 4:14 AM Andreas Johansson wrote:

>What does the apostrophes mean?
>
>                                                    Andreas
>
>Cian Ross wrote:
>>
>>In Veldan:
>>
>>Platonic:
>>
>>Filem sta'n.  [said to a man]
>>Filem sti'n.  [said to a woman]
>>
>>Romantic:
>>
>>A'mam sta'n (sti'n).
>>
>>Erotic:
>>
>>Auram sta'n (sti'n).
>>
>>For emphatic constructions, use a'sta'n or a'sti'n for the object,
>>or duplicate the subject with a pronoun, e.g.:
>>
>>A'mam me' st'an.
>>*I* love you.
>>
>>A'mam me' a'st'an.
>>*I* love *you*.
>>
>>
>>Cian Ross
>>cian@io.com
>
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