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!"

                                                           Andreas

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