Re: Ray Brown ples notar!

jesse stephen bangs wrote:

> [kut]
> I understood the whole thing without any trouble at all, although I was
> confused about the grammatical structure.  Is there any verb
> agreement?  There seems to be article agreement: "la filia" vs. "li
> litteri", but otherwise no gender agreement.  I also seemed to spot
> inflecting prepositions ala Italian or Spanish, but I'm not sure.  I also
> couldn't decide if the thing was in present tense or past tense.
Hay solmen un articul definit in Occidental. Li. Li mann, li fémina, li cat, li
cates.
Li passate es con li -t finale. Por exemple, amar = to love. ama = loves, amat =
loved.
amant = loving.

> > > > > Close. ...to the world again.
> > > >
> > > > Ah. I didn't know what "devon" meant.
> > >
> > > denov ne devon. ;-)
>
> I guessed that "denov" was "again" because it looked like a contraction of
> "de nov" or "of new," a common idiom for "again" in the Romance langs.
>
> I'll try to say that sentence in the lang itself:
> Yo guicit que "denov" esset "again" por que ti se paret com una
> contraction
> de "de nov" au "of new," una idioma comun pro "again" en li langui
> Romantic.
Tu have li correct idé, ma Occidental usa li maxim conosset paroles international.
Dunc, "Yo divinat que 'denov' esset 'again' pro que it aparit quam un contraction de
'de nov', un comun idiom in li lingues romanic."

> > > Yo va vermen sentir li manca de su presentie!!!!
> > > I will truly [to] feel the lack of her presence!!!
>
> "vermen" cognate to Sp "verdad" or L "vere" ?  How does "manca" mean
> "lack?"  I would have guessed it had to do with the word for "to eat."
Li parole "machar" es li parole "to chew". F mácher, SP mascar L masticar A to chew.
Li parole "mancar" es li parole "to be in want. I, F manquer, D mangeln, fehlen,
versagen...

> [kut]
>
> Yes, it's much easier with a Romance lang or three under your
> belt.  Transparently so.
Solmen un lingue es un necessitá, ne du o tri o quar. ;-)

>
> [kut]
>
> "Ti" = "it"?  I would guess "ti" as a form of the 2nd person singular.
> Ti = this
Cordialmen,
Bob, x+O~