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Re: [romconlang] Slezan



> > > >  Bon zrn! - Good morning!

> > Isaac Penzev wrote:
> > > What's the origin of the root _zrn_ ?

> Christian Thalmann eskribiw:
> > _Diurnus_, I guess.  It sounds a lot like "Buon Giorno".

Isaac Penzev wrote:
> Yea, that was my guess too, but the semantics of the word confused me.
> ...

Could you be reading it too literally?  "Good day" is a greeting in many
langauges but not (wild estimate) for a majority of Anglophones, so "Bon
zrn" is translated here as the nearest common greeting in English.

-- 
Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/