amazing kleenex (was Re: Boston miniconlangcon photos)

Aidan Grey <grey@...> wrote:
>
>     Here are some translation exercises based on quoted from the event:
>
>     It's amazing what you can do with kleenex. (thanks to Yoon)
Slwlrsnyry xvexenya uot slmlanau.

very.(opposite).long using.paper something.(abstractor)
very.fascinating.(nominalizer)

    This was an interesting exercise, because I hadn't had a way to say "the
class of things which have a property".  It turns out to be simply "uot",
from "u", the all purpose pronoun, and "ot", the abstractor suffix.
    The first "w" is there just to separate the "l"s.
    "Snyry" means "large along one dimension" and is used for both "long"
and "thick".

>     Would you please clean my suckers? (Ben)
Mnefmu u xa napu we sroma fmaweznuku?

desired-by.I something because you therefore clean
my.(plural).sucking.(nominalizer)

vocabulary (* = new for this exercise):

 fma       at.  my
 fmu       n.   I
 lr        st.  opposite
 mlana     ad.  interesting, fascinating
 mne       p.   desired by
 ot        su.  (abstractor)
 sl        st.  very
 snyry     ad.  long, thick (1D)
*sroma     ad.  clean
 u         n.   something (general placeholder)
 u         su.  (nominalizer)
 we        at.  plural
 xa...we   c.   because ... (and ...) therefore ...
*xenya     n.   paper
 xve       p.   user of, using (as an aid for something else)
*znuk      ad.  sucking

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