Re: Saying "Thank you."
| From: | Cian Ross <cian@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 22, 2001, 5:33 |
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On 8/19/01 at 10:09 PM Sally Caves wrote:
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>Also, I'd like to ask you if you
>would volunteer your words for "thank you" in
>your languages, so she can get a taste of it.
In Veldan (Veldaneas Lingwas):
Eraganym mathassu. [formal]
IMM-PAST-do-PASS-1ST-SG good-PREP-SG.
(the use of the Prepositional case here is a survival of the old Instrumental.)
I have (just) been benefitted.
Thank you.
Emathaganym. [informal]
IMM-PAST-good-do-PASS-1ST-SG
I have (just) been benefitted.
Thank you.
Erganymas. [Velda City street dialect, contraction of the formal usage]
The orthography here is basically Latin plus 'y' as I was taught to pronounce it in a
book on Anglo-Saxon. Stress accent recedes as far as 3 syllables ahead of the last.
And...thank you for making me make these up just now. :)
Cian