Re: Predicting the future

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Sanghyeon Seo <sanxiyn@...> per pêca:

> I came across this quote by Alan Kay, and I thought it'd make a good
> translation exercise:
> The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
In Ilomi:
"ameto okenyopuswe epanyose akunyonsu i epensonyefa aso."

Interlinearisation:
ameto ....................... method
oke-ny-opuswe .. good-JOINER-superlative [= opu-swe .... more-INTENSITIVE]
epany-ose ............. say-JOINER-past
aku-ny-onsu ........ thing.INANIMATE-JOINER-future
i .................................. COPULA
epenso-ny-efa .. think-JOINER-make
aso ........................... it.INANIMATE

 - inventing tags as they seem necessary.  Hope this is clear.
More verbosely, "~ny~" is a "compounding hyphen" and "i"
is a "sentence division marker".)

See http://ca.geocities.com/handydad/elomi/elomi-main.html
Ilomi was Elomi until the most recent sound changes ;-)

Thanks for the exercise, Sanghyeon Seo!

Regards,
Yahya


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