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Re: "How are you", in different languages?

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Saturday, March 1, 2003, 0:48
Daniel Andreasson wrote:
> In Piata, the usual greeting is literally "how" plus an emphatic > particle. I haven't decided the actual words yet, but probably > something like _ni che_, _ni_ being 'how' and _che_ one of the > emphatic particles. (Okay, so it's decided then. No wait, that > sounds just like "Nietzsche". Hey, Friedrich! Ni che? :D I'd > better come up with something else.)
Naaa...keep it. Anyway, how common a name is Friedrich in Piata?? One of the joys of conlanging is being able to introduce sly little things like that; like (someone) who mentioned that _dali_ is the word for 'art' in his/her language... or David Peterson who IIRC names his languages after his girl-friend of the moment.
> > If you were taught _Hur mår du?_ in some TY-book, it rather gives the > impression that you really want to know how someone is feeling... :P >
Aha! Kash _kañale_ exactly.