Re: Saying "Thank you."
| From: | Rik Roots <rikroots@...> | 
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 22, 2001, 20:57 | 
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> 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
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