Re: Adam Walker's entry FW: T-Shirt

Thanks for the super-fast response!  Looks like I made a total bone-head
mistake and sent my post to The Grey Wizard rather than the list at large!
Guess that's what I get for e-mailing after midnight!

See below where I correct another bone-headed mistake and give some omitted
info!

>From: The Gray Wizard <dbell@...>
>Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 07:07:30 -0400
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adam Walker [mailto:dreamertwo@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 12:06 PM
>To: dbell@GRAYWIZARD.NET
>Subject: T-Shirt
>
> >English:   Invent a language!
>
>Lrahran:
>
>Hlelalaohlen hrelmolonu!
This SHOULD be Hlelalaohlenryon hrelmolonu!  I forgot the patient marker
-ryon. *smacking head*

>
>Mazvita:
>
> >\f Fight linguistic extinction...invent a language!
> >\t andisfaca           atsfandingo  didzva      sazvacata.      ndisfaca
>\m
> >a-  ndi-  sfaca*    atsfandingo  didzva      sazvaca -ta     ndi-  sfaca
> >\g pl- 1gen- language  to.dry.up    rel.clause  prevent -oblig  1gen-
> >language
> >\p pl- gen-  noun      verb         rel pro     verb     -mood  gen-
>noun
> >\x languages           dry.up       that        prevent         language
> >
> >\t imidizvengogi
> >\m imi-   adizvengo*           -gi
> >\g fut-   to.tell.a.new.story  -imp
> >\p tense- verb \x tell
>
>
-sfaca is a root which litterally means "river" and is ordinarily placed in
4th gender (inanimate) and realized as ngasfaca, however when realized with
the 1st gender (sentient) prefix ndi- it is a poetic term for language.

adizvengo means "to tell a new story" and since languages are made of words
just as are stories, it seems that the speakers of Mazvita view language
creation as a form of story-telling.

Adam
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