Re: CHAT: Is anybody here? Hello?

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999 10:17:39 -0500 Tony Harris
<tony.harris@...> writes:
>Aha!  So it's not just me!  I was beginning to worry that our mail =
>server was losing messages or something!
>
>Perhaps we all need some motivation to talk more.  Hmm.....
>
>Well if nothing else, I'll use this opportunity for another plug for
>the
>Alurian Web Pages at http://ccvtest.ccv.vsc.edu/aluric/aluric.html .
>I
>never did hear any feedback on the site after I mentioned it a couple
>weeks ago.
Probably because of the low amount of people :)

>I'll also use this as an opportunity to translate Chris's signature =
>quote into Aluric (everyone else feel free to do the same into your =
>languages!):
>>"Reality is just another point of view."
>"Zh=EB verhs=E1ns=EBs lh=F4=F1 s=F9lme y=E1sh=EB th=F3=BFen."
Okay, so here's the Rokbeigalmki form:

_droitz, uz khalu kheza~k sudyu._
Kirshenbaum IPA:  / d*Ojts uz 'xalu xEza::k sudju /

Disected:

droitz = "reality", not as an abstract concept, more 'tangible', like
saying that something is real as opposed to a metaphysical discussion on
what the concept of "reality" is - that would be _droitz-tzat_.

uz = "it", the 'is' is understood.  Rokbeigalmki has no "simple" present
tense, just an immediate and a routine, so simple A = B "is" does not
exist.  But the other present tenses of "is" can be dropped also.  So
more literally, the sentence is "reality - it's just another point of
view", like the (substandard? colloquial?) English construction "my
friend - she went for a walk".

khalu = "just" in the sense of "no more, no less".  If it meant more like
"plain, without anything else" it would be _stan_.  It comes from a
combination of two words _akh_ "but" and _ilu_ "all".

kheza~k = "point of view".  _kheza~_ (an intensified form of _khaz_,
"sight") means "gaze".  The _k_ at the end comes from _kouk_,
"situation".  So therefore, "situation of gazing" = "point of view".

sudyu = "other".  _sud_ is the basic adjective prefix, turning _yu_ "an
other" into an adjective describing _kheza~k_.

>Tony Harris
>Community College of Vermont
>tony.harris@ccvtest.ccv.vsc.edu

-Stephen (Steg)
 "hhalomot zeh b'emet"

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