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Re: Saying "Thank you."

From:Rik Roots <rikroots@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 22, 2001, 20:57
> How do you say "thank you" in your conlangs? > How do you analyze it grammatically, and how > do you pronounce it? >
In Gevey, you say "dak", to which the proper response is "dakahzu". Both words stand outside the rules of grammar and are used as-is. Using X-SAMPA: dak - d{k dakahzu - d{ke@zV
> > Firrimby means "grateful." Yry is the non-volitional > emphasized pronoun. Ry is simply "I," in your > basic OV zero-copula Teonaht declarative. > > firrimby! > Sally Caves > scaves@frontiernet.net
Rik, knee deep -- The Gevey language reference http://www.kalieda.org/gevey/index.html