Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 23, 2003, 15:56 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan van Steenbergen" <ijzeren_jan@...>
> --- John Cowan skrzypszy:
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> > My favorite insult: "Your parents were brothers!"
> > ObConlang: in Lojban, that's "lo rorci be do cu bruna lo te rorci be
do".
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> 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!")
Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teoeng.html
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