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Re: Another little translation exercise

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Sunday, April 4, 1999, 5:16
On Sat, 3 Apr 1999 12:17:34 +0100, Irina Rempt <ira@...> =
wrote:

>A motto occurred to me that I read on a seventeenth-century house in >Haarlem (my native town) and that I've more or less adopted as my >own: > > Beginnen can ick, volherden wil ick, volbringhen sal ick > >In English: > > I can begin, I want to persevere, I will succeed.
In Jarrda: Shon zeu keal, kyem zeu mim, ghajue zira. can -- begin, want -- persist, succeed-FUT.PERF I-ERG. -- languages of Kolagia---> = +---<http://www.io.com/~hmiller/languages.html>--- Thryomanes /"If all Printers were determin'd not to print = any (Herman Miller) / thing till they were sure it would offend no = body, moc.oi @ rellimh <-/ there would be very little printed." -Ben = Franklin