Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)


> Quoting Sally Caves <scaves@...>:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jan van Steenbergen" <ijzeren_jan@...>
> >
> >
> > > --- John Cowan skrzypszy:
> > >
> > > > My favorite insult:  "Your parents were brothers!"
> > > > ObConlang: in Lojban, that's "lo rorci be do cu bruna lo te rorci
> > be
> > do".
> > >
> > > Mmm, not bad. In Wenedyk I would say: "Twie parze~cie jara~ wraczy!"
> >
> > Ailly!  What if you don't have a word in your language for "parent"?
> > Just
> > "mother" or "father"?  In Teonaht, "parents" in the plural is
> > "nippanand,"
> > your "momdads."  How utterly hetero of the Teonim.  I suppose you could
> > say:
> >
> > Fretyn fyl nippanand!  ("Brothers (are/were) your momdads!")
>
> I've not yet got a Tairezazh word for "parent", so we'll go the really
weird
> way:
>
> Mana ne tato shai ak tezden!
>
> "Your mother and father were brothers!"
You could (à la Spanish), use "fathers" as a gender neutral term for
parents.

>                                                            Andreas
>

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