Re: Examples wanted: How do you say this?

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Gregory Gadow <techbear@S...> wrote:
>> Hey!
>>
>> I guess Ayeri would "shoot with canons on sparrows"[1]
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>[1] I didn't find a translation for "mit Kanonen auf Spatzen
>>schießen" in my dictionary. It means that you use all the
>>power of a method for something for which an easier method
>>would have worked as well, maybe even better.
>Heh, my conculture has a similar expression: dife'llan büshaxhe
>dhichol-ainom "to hunt squirrel with a catapult."
>Gregg Gadow
The elves in my conculture have a similar expression.  They are
sheepherders and they say:

oµéém meÞróós µèèla nucéra.
oµ-éém meÞr-óós µèèla nu-cér-a.
sheep-ACC.pl scythe-STA.pl with he-shear-IND
He shears sheep with a scythe.

P.S. I'm trying out a new way to form the plural.  The case/number
morpheme lengthens the vowel and is accented.

óµen - oµéén - sheep, nominative
µírus - µirúús - man, stational
méÞrom - meÞróóm - scythe, motional
etc.

µ = m_0

Charlie
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