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Re: Trivial Translation Exercise

From:Michael Potter <mhpotter@...>
Date:Friday, August 13, 2004, 1:22
Christian Thalmann wrote:
> Inspired by a poster ad for cosmetics, which undoubtedly > stole it from somewhere else: > > "You can't add more years to your life, but you can add > more life to your years." > > Of course, this only works in languages where one word > is used for both the content and the span of a life... >
It doesn't work out precisely in Suvile, but you could come close by using |-il|, which makes "concrete" nouns. necin'l ancel jirelan ing raziler, [nE'tSinl= an'tSEl 'dZi4Elan iN '4AzilEr\ ne-cin-l ancel jir-el-an ing raz-il-le-r NEG-can-2S add year-PL-ACC more life-NOM-2S.POSS-DAT ine cin'l ancel razan ing jireler 'ine 'tSinl= an'tSEl '4Azan iN 'dZi4Eler\] ine cin-l ancel raz-an ing jir-el-le-r but can-2S add life-ACC more year-PL-2S.POSS-DAT Hopefully that's readable. I think this is the first translation I've posted that's longer than 1 line. -- Michael