Proverbs

Mark Reed wrote:

>On the wall in every one of its locations I've seen, there are
>several painted-on posters. One of them is a cartoony painting of a
>waiter looking back at you with a caption that says "Non sapevo che
>tu fossi filosofo".  This is Italian for "I didn't know that you
>were a philosopher".
Some other one-liners might be proverbs, either of our own
natcultures or of our concultures.  I took a fancy to a proverb I
read in an article the other day:

"Praise Allah, but first tie your camel to a post."  I assume that
the reference is to dismounting for one of the five times of daily
prayer, but making sure your camel doesn't wander off while you are
praying.

In Senyecan:

dïéyµum yucááre, ànti yùµem mímem yucáçne.
Quite by accident the two verbs are alliterative!

"d_d_jejm_0um  ju"ka:4_0e  'ant_di  'jum_0em "mimem ju"cats)ne
I have used " to indicate primary pitch and ' secondary.

god.ACC.SG  you.PL-praise.IMP  but  you.PL-POSS-ACC.SG  steed.ACC.SG
you.PL-hobble-IMP

This is a lot more fun now that I'm learning X-SAMPA.

Conculture note: The word "steed" is used since each of the loquent
races has a different species as its steed.

camel = gúgen; gug- = hump; -en = animal class.  This denotes the
Bactrian camel _Camelus ferus_.

The Arabian camel is òigúgen, i.e., one-hump-animal class.

Charlie
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