Re: Informants, etc.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 02:40:42PM -0800, Arthaey Angosii wrote:
> Emaelivpar HS Teoh:
[snip]
> >Wow. Apparently you have a lot of verbs for "wrote" or "spoke". :-)
>
> Actually, there's only one verb in there, the standard "to write".  Let me
> show you.  :)
Aha, _blepw_. ;-)

(Oh oops, Classical Greek lapse. That's not Ebisedian! :-)

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> >What I know of Ebisedian is more through direct
> >contact with the Ebisedi on the other side of the _jyy'i_. ;-)
>
> Explain to me about this Ebisedian _jyy'i_ thing you have?
From the Lexicon:

_jyy'i_, neuter noun. (1) ``Door'', ``entrance''. (2) ``Portal''.  A
non-destructive, swirling phenomenon in Ferochromon with teleportative
properties, both occurring naturally and stimulated artificially.

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> Wouldn't it be interesting if our informants (yes, I shall be picking one
> up soon-ish :) visited each other's cultures and published
> linguistic/anthropologal articles about each other?  Then snobbish ones
> would be most fun to read.  ;)
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I think the Ebisedi's view of Earthlings would be interesting enough in
its own right. :-)


T

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