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Re: [romanceconlang] Re: Vulgar Latin (was: Ninfeano web page)



--- Christian Thalmann <cinga@hidden.email> wrote:
> --- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, Padraic
> Brown <elemtilas@y...>
> wrote:
> 
> > It's probably the same phenomenon that allows
> > Christophe his _very_ good comprehension of
> > Kerno; 
> 
> Something which I pitifully lack even with the
> help of your wordlist.  =P

Well, he has got a maggelatious mindset to aid
him! :)))

> > il becko Jowans backalars
> > sew ncorne tan llar'ment ys wentast;
> > yen dia s' ouws desfussiont
> > co lê corn sew dda li cabast.
> 
> The small John bachelor
> His horn so clearly he blew;
> One day (his? the?) mothersheep (ran away? were
> absent?)
> with the horn his (?) (?) whipped.

You got it!

"Little Johnny shepherd
his horn he clearly blew;
one day his sheep they fled
and with the horn his Da he beat him"

> Hrmpf.  The wordlist is useless without at
> least a hint at personal pronoun declination 
> and verb conjugation.

Well, I hen't got around to formalising it yet!
-ont is definitely 3pl; -st is a 3s past
termination.

> But I found a word "y choeaoil" -- now that's
> some cool spelling!  ;-)

And for a lesson in pronunciation: [i xVej] more
or less.

Padraic.


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il becko Jowans backalars
sew ncorne tan llar'ment ys wentast;
yen dia s' ouws desfussiont
co lê corn sew dda li cabast.


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