Re: T-Shirt yet again

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 23:04:47 -0700, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
wrote:

>That's great!  I'd like to hear more compositions.  Do you see any
>"arka"
>in Michigan?  I imagine you saw more "bekazi" in Texas. <G> (maybe these
>aren't native to Texas...whaddo I know?)
Arka I haven't seen yet. They probably come out at night, like the binti I
used to see occasionally in Texas.

Bekazi are native to Africa, southern Asia, and Australia. Probably the
most famous species is the Komodo Bekazi, er, Dragon. But there are zivat
in Texas. (Zivat means "lizard" in Gjarrda. When I borrowed it into Tilya,
the meaning specialized to mean "the specific kind of lizard that I've seen
in Texas". (An unusual feature of Tirehlat is that while there's no generic
word for "lizard", there are different words for specific kinds of lizards:
zivat, bekazi, deku, ogolko, and neladak.))

>Yep... visited... can you tell?  How do you make plurals?
No morphological plurals in either Tirehlat or Tilya. Tirehlat has a word
"xami" meaning "more than one".

>My visit to Austin last year was a trip to see a coupla you conlangers,
>including Herman.  It was pleasantly warm in November.  It is vavava
>cold
>here. (Sound of Teonaht teeth chattering:  vavava, yry froho!)
It's starting to get colder here. Today's high was 15 klizhi*, and there's
faz in the forecast for tomorrow.

*15 (base 12) = 17 (decimal), divide by 1.44 to get 11.8 Celsius, do the
Celsius-to-Fahrenheit conversion: 53 degrees.

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