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BestATN@hidden.email wrote:
>
> daykaxtebyo,
> casi mi jada tumi fomundaw sulupu foy.
> tenda mi bapu deku bipu foy ne bupu foy poku tumu ne xapu deku xipu tumu nu
> xupu tumu poku vomu. batsa mi napu xansa viku. xansanda mi vesya vojemu.
> tenda mi netse tipu va ne napu nimu. batsa lenapu foy nipu semu ne nupu
> tumu. nusa kwanta nupu tumu foy cova mi ne tipu foy. tenda domi cavu va
> fudi xensa bubinsa.
> ligoy kocabyonta nupu xansa xeku foy nimbe-xesyantay-famuntay. myafusinda
> mi.
>
Computer translations:
casi mi jada tumi fomundaw sulupu foy.
= I want to tell you about a few of my family.
tenda mi bapu deku bipu foy ne bupu foy poku tumu ne xapu deku xipu tumu
nu xupu tumu poku vomu.
PARSER.PARSE_PARENTHETICAL_EXPRESSION.IMPROPERLY_FORMED_PARENTHETICAL_EXPRESSION
batsa mi napu xansa viku.
= I'm the oldest child.
xansanda mi vesya vojemu.
= I'm forty-six years old.
tenda mi netse tipu va ne napu nimu.
= I also have a wife and three children.
batsa lenapu foy nipu semu ne nupu tumu.
= My children are one daughter and two sons.
nusa kwanta nupu tumu foy cova mi ne tipu foy.
= My two sons are here with me and my wife.
tenda domi cavu va fudi xensa bubinsa.
PARSER.PARSE_OBLIQUE_ARGUMENT.MISSING_CASE_TAG_ARGUMENT
ligoy kocabyonta nupu xansa xeku foy nimbe-xesyantay-famuntay.
= My older son will resume being a student five days from now.
myafusinda mi.
= I'm happy.
Stephan Schneider <sts@hidden.email> wrote:
>
> how do we say:
> "which bike is good?"
> i'd say
> "cansa tungo kiju?"
> but there is no kiju in katanda, yet. isn't it logical that it's
> going to exist?
>
Look up "which" in the dictionary. "Kiju" is not a valid word. If it
were, it would mean something like "which this?", which is gibberish.
>
> lesson15:
> All of the ducks were eaten by three healthy cats.
> Pi pafuskinza naji vimu pava casne caygo nimu.
> sts: is there a difference to...
> Pi pafuskinza vimundaw lenaji pava casne caygo nimu.
>
Not really, since "vimu" inherently includes the entire group.
"Vimundaw" seems to imply that "all of the ducks" are part of a larger
group, which is either redundant or meaningless.
>
> lesson15:
> I saw something like a tiger moving away from that low
> fence.
> Pi vezdi mi vatsi bate kosne va pedinju mokxe bucinsa niju.
> sts: what if there were "pedingu" instead of "pedinju"? would the
> translation change?
>
Since "pedinju" is AP/F-d, it implies that the tiger moved under his own
power. P/F-d "pedingu" would imply that movement occurred without
volition or explicit cause.
Computer translation:
Pi vezdi mi vatsi bate kosne va pedingu mokxe bucinsa niju.
= I saw something like a tiger get far away from that low fence.
>
> lesson15:
> I thought about the Katanda words after the teacher
> explained the words to me.
> Pi si mi letadya te Katanda goynde koda kobyo mi letadya.
>
> [Note that we must repeat the word "letadya". If we had instead
> used the anaphor "tahi", it would have referred to "Katanda":
>
> Pi si mi letadya te Katanda goynde koda kobyo mi tahi
> = I thought about the Katanda words after the teacher
> explained it (meaning 'the Katanda language') to me.
>
> Thus, we had to repeat the word "letadya" to get the desired
> interpretation.]
> sts: so how do we say "I thought about the Katanda words after the
> teacher explained them to me." ??
>
You can't. Something similar happens in natural languages when an
anaphor would be ambiguous, as in "Bill, Mike, and Joe walked into the
room, and he was very drunk". In this case, the speaker MUST repeat the
name of the person who is drunk if he wants to be understood.
The difference is that, in Katanda, there is no ambiguity. Thus, "tahi"
can only refer to "Katanda", which would not have the intended meaning.
Regards,
Rick Morneau
http://www.srv.net/~ram
http://www.eskimo.com/~ram