Re: Long Languages

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 04/05/99 21:40:36  , Irina wrote :

<< Drasel=E9q seems to be a very long language: when I did the translation
 of Pablo Flores' bit of play (where are you, Pablo, and have you read
 it?) some Valdyan sentences came out less than half the length of the
 original.

I know Drasel=E9q, it's very long, but still...
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 > Is a "long language" a "retarded language" ?=20
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 I don't think so. Languages can "wear down" with use, but they can
 also pick up extra morphemes, for instance when endings and such have
 worn down into non-existence and the meaning becomes unclear.

Yes. You may be right, but then it looks like people have the time to think=20
twice ahead of what they will say, and get lazy, and end up needing twice as=20
long to think of anything ;-)
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 > Mathias
 > Taka-itu-Tunu
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 Translation, please? If it means "Mathias", how? (My name in
 Boudewijn's conlang is "Pariyal" meaning "peace-friend", a literal
 translation of my two Christian names, Irina Ruth) >>

Taka-itu-Tunu means "Tunu-speaking-person" obviously because I don't think=20
anybody else does (my teeming imagination, you see).
Peace-Friend would be "Tomo-ika-Sapi", but I prefer "Pariyal".

Mathias