Re: conlang greetings? (was Re: Let me introduce myself)
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 3, 2001, 21:18 |
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On Sunday, December 2, 2001, at 11:17 , J Y S Czhang wrote:
NOTE: I'll be adding this and other conlang greetings sent to me to the
page at
http://pegasus.cityofveils.com/greetings.phtml
as time permits. Bring 'em on. ;-)
> In a message dated 02.12.2001 03:00:13 PM, jaspax@JUNO.COM writes:
>> In Yivríndil, the standard greeting is "Aiya," and the leave-taking is
>> [snip]
> I found this rather amusing & likable ... South East Asian Chinese say
> "Aiyah!" a lot ;P
>
<laugh> Koreans say something like "Aiyah!" for "ouch!"
> OBCONLANG: in Lego - which is predominantly VSO, the slangy greeting
> is
> the question-statement:
>
> cwu continuo existe tu?
>
Hey, I actually almost understood that "out of the box"!
> /kwu kon.tin.uo e.iks.iste tu/
>
> _cwu_ is the question-marker
>
> _continuo_ IIRC is an "aspect adverb" (?)
>
<sheepish look> What's an aspect adverb? Baa...
Laiya,
Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofveils.com]
http://pegasus.cityofveils.com
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