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Re: translation exercise

From:takatunu <takatunu@...>
Date:Sunday, January 25, 2004, 15:48
Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:

>>>>>
I know who I want to take me home. The English can be made more verbose and perhaps clearer: I know/have decided which person it is that I would like to be the one who takes me home [with them]. But that is structurally the same; I don't know how to simplify the grammar without breaking it up into multiple sentences. <<<<<< I find it transparent. It's longer in my conlang but it's just because English is very compact: Pikani a mosala sakakani kitali tokalo o pikani a kosomi naio timiko a komamasi pikani a sakikiti manato otai pikani. I / already / decide / person / what? / who / I / want / that / (s)he / accompanies / me / goes_to / home / of / me. µ.