Re: Interbeing

Am 17.02.02, Joe Hill yscrifef:

> > Goueth il bards gouer y nevulles in ce seu papeir; persque sen
>
> Interesting language...It looks Celtic, but it's obviously Romance...well
> done!
Got it in one. Romance with Celtic influence.

I suppose an interlinear is in order, since everyone else was
kind enough to provide me with one!

Goueth il  bards gouer y   nevulles in ce  seu papeir;
sees   the poet  true  the clouds   in the his paper

persque sen     ces nevulles, cressa ne bellet unill;
for     without the clouds    grow   no trees  any-at-all

et enound   cressa ne bellet spech,     fachteor ne papeir ser.
&  at-where grow   no trees  any-at-all is-made  no paper  any

Hos modd, il  papeir ach y   nevoul consont. Ne  tens cuech  ty
thus      the paper  and the clouds interare not have a-peep thou

le  moutil 'conesser' ny     teu dixtcieoneir; iveri, credhem eo
the word   'interbe'  in-the thy dictionary    indeed believe I

ke   deus   ystar    ce la,   per ce  cest raison partichoeleir.
that should to-stand it there for the this reason very

Note the subjunctive (cressa) for conditions unreal or uncertain;
and that the verb is singular with a plural noun. Lots of nice
negative particles here: unill (a chip, as of wood), ser
(leaf/sheet, as of paper), cuech (peep, as in muttum nullum).
They can all be translated as "not" or "no"; but the original is
much more onomotopoetic: "no chip of a tree grows"; "not a slip
of paper is made", etc. There are perhaps a score or so of these
particles each of which can be used with semantically associated
verbs or nouns: outh (drop) with verbs of flowing, drinking,
raining, bleeding, etc.; cuech (peep) with verbs of speaking,
singing, playing musical instruments, etc. Note "fachteor", a
proper -r passive. "Hos modd" is a terrible agglomeration of a
usually emphatic pronoun + a Brithenig borrowed noun; and tends
to replace the much more poetic "perceren". Even worse than
bastard word combinations is the oh so horrid tetragraph _xtci_
found in "il dixtcieoneirs". The whole of it is [S], so what's a
few extra letters? :) Deus < defs < L. debet; you still often
find "defs", though.

Padraic.
--
Gwerez dah, chee gwaz vaz, ha leal.

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