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Re: CHAT: Happy Birthday

From:daniel andreasson <danielandreasson@...>
Date:Monday, March 25, 2002, 13:10
Hmm. Isn't today Christophe Grandsire's 26th birthday?
(Why do I even remember that? :)

Happy birthday! Or as we say in Cein:

"Nost far!"

Sometimes you hear "Nost aleiss!" and "Nost felen!"

nost      far
birthday  good
'happy birthday'

_Aleiss_ and _felen_ both mean 'happy'. _Far_ is mutated
_mar_ meaning 'good'. _Nost_ can mean both 'birth' and
'birthday'. Stress is always on the last syllable. Oh, and
{f} is pronounced /v/.

This might be a nice translation exercise, come to think
of it.

||| daniel

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Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
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