< Cev> My people we use cars. I come from a very proud car culture-- every part of the car is used, nothing goes to waste. When my people first saw the car, generations ago, we called it šuŋka wakaŋ-- meaning "automated mobile".
Caesar wrote:Sunt item, quae appellantur alces. Harum est consimilis capris figura et varietas pellium, sed magnitudine paulo antecedunt mutilaeque sunt cornibus et crura sine nodis articulisque habent neque quietis causa procumbunt neque, si quo adflictae casu conciderunt, erigere sese aut sublevare possunt. His sunt arbores pro cubilibus: ad eas se applicant atque ita paulum modo reclinatae quietem capiunt. Quarum ex vestigiis cum est animadversum a venatoribus, quo se recipere consuerint, omnes eo loco aut ab radicibus subruunt aut accidunt arbores, tantum ut summa species earum stantium relinquatur. Huc cum se consuetudine reclinaverunt, infirmas arbores pondere adfligunt atque una ipsae concidunt.
sorry, I don't understand Latin. But it is a magnificient animal.
< Cev> My people we use cars. I come from a very proud car culture-- every part of the car is used, nothing goes to waste. When my people first saw the car, generations ago, we called it šuŋka wakaŋ-- meaning "automated mobile".
< Cev> My people we use cars. I come from a very proud car culture-- every part of the car is used, nothing goes to waste. When my people first saw the car, generations ago, we called it šuŋka wakaŋ-- meaning "automated mobile".
Miekko wrote:sorry, I don't understand Latin. But it is a magnificient animal.
A quick and dirty translation:
Also, there are those called elk. Their shape and type of hide is similar to a goat's, but they are a little larger and have stunted horns and legs without nodes or joints, and neither lie down to rest nor, if they fall afflicted by some accident, can they lift themselves up. They have trees for beds: they lean on them and so reclined a little, take rest. When their tracks have been noted by hunters, to plan to capture them the hunters either undermine all the trees there from the roots or hew at them, so that only the appearance of them standing is left. When the elk recline here by habit, they knock over the weakened trees by their weight and fall along with them.
