Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

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From: "Camilla Drefvenborg" <elmindreda@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)


> Andreas Johansson de ortekera:
>
> > Quoting Camilla Drefvenborg <elmindreda@...>:
> >
> >> Jan van Steenbergen de ortekera:
> >>
> >>>  --- John Cowan skrzypszy:
> >>>
> >>>> My favorite insult:  "Your parents were brothers!"
> >>
> >> let me try that in Nindára.
> >>
> >> nay ni leyomya de tamanera!
> >>
> >> ...to which most Darans would answer "sorry, no", except for the few
> >> so adopted. in any case, the idea that it was meant as an insult
> >> would probably never enter sanna i (his/her) mind.
> >
> > I understand what you mean, but surely tone and accompanying facial
> > expression would satisfyingly convey the unfriendly intent in most
> > circumstances?
>
> for certain, but consider this then; if someone were to shout "your
> school had a green bicycle-shed!", with accompanying tone and facial
> expression, how insulted would you feel? really? using a fact (true or
> not) which is not in any way culturally 'loaded' would, from me at
> least, only elicit ridicule.
>

Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!

[jOR mVzE:R wOz @n &mstE:r, &nd jOR fazE:R smElt ov Eld@bERi:z]

;-)

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