Re: Trans: 'I love you'

> > If I may make a suggestion, make that sentence "I love you". For
> > some reason it seems to be among very the first people learn in a
> > new lang ...
        Now, this is just confusing, since the word "love" has so
many shades of meaning in English.  I have to assume we're working
with a romantic context here:

Vaior:
        Mero va san.
        mer-o     va  sa-n
        love-PRES 1sg 2sg-ACC.

Now, this is a friendly, if bland, assertion to make, given the chance
to say this:

        Mero va essan.
        mer-o     va  essa-n
        love-PRES 1sg 2sg=intimate-ACC.

using the intimate form of the word "you."  Finally, for someone
totally enthralled with a fondness for the dramatic:

        Mero au innahith essan.

where "au innahith" means something like "this pathetic one."  Of
course, if you're talking to Mom, all bets are off: you need a new
verb and you can skip the "essa" variety of 2sg pronoun. :)

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wm - unix geek, gastronome, oenophile, linguaholic maker
of techno (www.mp3.com/inorganicname) and fiendishly complex
languages (www.execpc.com/~wsannis/vaior)

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