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HelixWitch wrote:next word: mess, jumble

Sorry. I posted just after you and bumped your word to the side.

Ewed: dasa - messy, jumbled, disarrayed, disorderly, untidy

TaylorS wrote:Next word: Ocean

Ewed: falu - (1) sea, ocean; (2) soul

Next word: tide

HelixWitch wrote:next word: repetitive, repetition, repeat, repeating

Ewed:

Ewe: again
Ewe dje do again, repeat

Ma i dze du. Wa i dac ewe dje ma.
"That's no good. You have to do that again."

Next word: lizard.

eodrakken wrote:next: pay attention

Ewed:

ngin "focuses (on)", "concentrates (on)", "pays attention (to)"

Next: experience

more like "dancing under"...I thought it would be a good example of Locative. (wrong word?) Depends on the language, could be locative, could be inessive. Some languages may treat "singing in the house/shower" differently to "singing in a choir". The first is physical location, the second may bette...

Next: singing in..., singing within... What? Is that a particular concept you wish you express? It just seems like two random words taken from the middle of a sentence (eg. "people don't", "dancing under"). In Ewed you'd say laala ni , for example Na i laala ni ham na "I'm singing in my house." No ...

Jacqui wrote:Sko, seeing as nobody has explained it properly yet [...]

Earlier, I wrote:Play fighting is when you "fight" with someone as a game, not because you actually want to hurt them. It's rowdy play behaviour, not actual conflict.

Also, is anyone going to provide their word and suggest a subsequent word?

Oh, er, uh, I only read your translation - "fight like a dog". :? Yeah, you highlighted something interesting actually. The Ewed word for " horse play" is more like " dog fight" in origin. In English, fight like a dog has connotations of "dishonorable fighting". Dogs fight in a way (with their teet...

patiku wrote:It's an alternate term for "dirty fighting", especially when someone bites and scratches.

No, that's not it at all. Play fighting is when you "fight" with someone as a game, not because you actually want to hurt them. It's rowdy play behaviour, not actual conflict.

Next: in search of Ewed: Jel /Zel/ [ZEl] English translations: v. search for, seek, look for; n. seeker, searcher. Na i gi jel wa [najgiZElwa] 1S COP former seeker 2s "I was looking for you" Juaj i gi in hin a jel al az 3P.MASC COP 'becomer' traveler which.is seeker land new.thing "They set off in ...

next word: cooking oil, fried food, etc as long as it's related to fried goodness The Ewed don't really have fried food, but they've encountered it in some of the cultures they've subjugated. The word for "oil" is a compound, lan mup (from "water" + "fat", ie. "fat water"). Any oily food is referre...

milone - v. to show empathy/compassion next word: leverage (Määda: liätërällesu - from liätë conflict + rälle to balance, turn + su nominalizer The Ewed are a little bit boring in the sense that they have more or less the same metaphor as we English speakers. They have no combustion engines of any ...

Lesson 4! Animacy! Gender! Verb Agreement! Intransitives! http://vacuouswastrel.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/a-course-in-rawang-ata-1-4/ This is great stuff. Rawàng Ata looks like a nightmare to learn, but fascinating! I really like the cultural information your putting up about each of the vocabulary ...

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Fanu wrote:dohmen /do"h\me~/ I harvest
There are no infinitives in this lang, the root would be dohm-.

Do you have gerunds?

WurdBendur wrote:Next: disrobe, undress

Ewed:

In saa, from in "become" [INCEPTIVE] + saa "naked".

or

be guiva, from be "remove" + guiva "clothing", "clothes".

Next: swagger, walk like a tough guy

My word: gills Ewed ( Tal Tsung sociolect): Bin iltu [bInIltu], literally "fish handles", from bin ("handle") + iltu ("fish"). The Tsung don't know (nor would they particularly care) that a fish breathes with its gills. They're just convenient handles for fishermen to carry big fish with. Next word...

It's a shame that mere vocabulary lists are so common. In a really alien culture (even human-alien, not even alien-alien), concepts will be so different that they're not going to be easy to translate with a single word. Agreed. I like that you've attempted to give clear outlines of the semantic bou...

In Zali: Parent: Aba ["aba] Mother: Ama ["ama] (or abaren ["abazEn], literally just "female parent") Father: Ata ["ata] (or abaraz ["abazaZ], literally "male parent") Sibling: Kali ["kali] Sister: Jeje ["dZEdZE] (or kalyen ["kaLEn], literally "female sibling") Brother: Bubu ["bubu] (or kalyaz , lite...

I know he's gone now, but I just saw this and it cracks me up: What kind of fucking question is that? Oh, I understand your line of thought now: If English has it, then so must every other language. Can't fault that logic. Talk about putting words in my mouth . Sorry, I tend to use Gricean maxims wh...

Gomer Kyle wrote: Wow, that sounds a little like a rant. Here are a few random smiley's to lighten the mood.

Oh if only it were always that easy ...

Assuming a gume is masculine, I'd be that physically--I'm stocky, reasonably strong for not working out, and very hairy--but an ewez mentally. I tend not to consider myself to be manly at all. Ditto - I don't think I'm feminine or androgynous, physically - although I'm fairly thin, I'm tall and hai...

German Bismarck biss Mark, bis Mark Bismarck biss. /"bIsma:6k bIs "ma:6k bIs "ma:6k "bIsma:6k "bIs/ Bismarck (possible dog's name) bit Mark, until Mark bit Bismarck. Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen hinterher. /vEn "hInt6 "fli:gn= "fli:gn= "fli:gn= "fli:gn= "fli:gn= "fli:...

For reference, these are German dogs. As such, the word "dachshund" ("badger hound") is not pronounced (in CXS) [d&S@nd] but rather (forgive me if i screw this up, I don't speak German) [daxshUnd_0]. Thank you in advance for not being a typical English speaker and screwing this up terribly, like mo...

On a side note, I think it's really funny that singers in the 1910s sang [r] instead of [r\]. Yes, just the idea of doing such in an English-language context, Scottish dialects aside, seems just bizarre to me as well. My grade three teacher seemed to think that a rolled [r] was more proper than our...