Re: The proverbial two birds...

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:

> From: "The Gray Wizard"
>
> > Feeling lazy, so I decide to kill the proverbial two birds with the
> > proverbial one stone.  T-Shirt and daily translation.
>
> > English:   Fight linguistic extinction... invent a language!
In Chevraqis (Kirschenbaum IPA):

satebanen sjiqazie habazu, sjiqaze jachabu

death:genitive speech/song:involuntary-experiencer
conflict/battle:infinitive/imperative

speech/song:voluntary-experiencer birth/create:infinitive/imperative

(A Qenaren would think that a language, being the "song" of its people,
would be amenable to being created but not to being killed.)

Note on infinitive/imperatives: Chevraqis doesn't distinguish between the
dynamic and static forms of a verb in the infinitive/imperative.

In IPA:
sate'banen SIqa'zie ha'bazu, SI'qaze dZa'tSabu
(pitch accented by higher pitch)

Note: the language does have a conscript, which I may sometime attempt to
get online (thank Heaven I have an art tablet!), but it's written
syllabically like Korean, and vertically, which would probably be a
problem for the t-shirt.  Oh well.  <wry g>

YHL