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.