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To Be or Not To Be…in a manner of speaking…<\/a><\/p>\n

tsmykeyena\u031dk\u02bc\u00e9yop\u00e1l hyohye’yo xa\u031d enrr\u00e1yon t\u02bca; vinak\u02bctol rr\u00e1yom yvet\u02bcyo prrki’\u00e1t mp\u00e9.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve found having people come to me and say “how would you say…in your language” REALLY helps to boost the vocab AND to inform my development of the culture of this people. As an example, a friend recently asked me to translate “I think therefore I am” into rr\u00e1p ‘ay\u00e1<\/strong>. This turned out to be particularly tricky because I had to decide whether this was something that rr\u00e1ko\u031dk\u02bc\u00e9<\/strong> would ever say. I decided that they wouldn’t put that kind of emphasis on thought patterns as they were more interested in the voice. They would be more likely to say “I speak therefore I am.” There is also the issue that, when I was developing the culture for this language, I decided that they would never speak of something in terms of what it IS. What something IS is knowable only to the Gods, this is its ‘i\u00e1xt\u00e1<\/strong>, its True Name. So they speak of things in terms of what they do\/have\/make, etc. So to say “I am” would never happen. So it forced me to create a work around for this phrase which turned into what you just heard.<\/p>\n

I had to create the word for “word” and to do that I had to create the word for “language” because the word for “word” translates as “a piece of language.” And “language” required the creation of the words “sound” and “path” because “language” translates directly as “sound path.” I also had to create the verb “to have” and the noun “substance\/physicality.” So it translates directly as “It is truth that in the direction of my words [lit. pieces of (the) sound path (language)] I give mind\/thought; to that end, I have substance (or so I believe).”<\/p>\n

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A word about Jeff’s Cat…<\/a><\/p>\n

enmrraw\u00e1n ch<\/strong>\u02bc<\/strong>ef\u00e1p hy\u00e1n mbet\u00e1rrkof\u00edyoxav\u00e1rrp<\/strong>\u02bc<\/strong>\u00e1 pex.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is one of the first full sentences that I came up with for rr\u00e1p ‘ay\u00e1<\/strong>. \u00a0It’s a simple declarative statement but includes an example of most of the features I had developed for the sentence at that time: case marking, verb tense, verb aspect, adposition, pronouns, lenition, evidentials…that’s a lot to pack into one simple statement about a man’s kitty. \u00a0This translates directly as “It is rumored that Jeff’s cat (it) was (recently) running very quickly.” \u00a0This could just as easily be said, “hy\u00e1n mbet\u00e1rrkof\u00edyoxav\u00e1rrp<\/strong>\u02bc<\/strong>\u00e1\u00a0ch<\/strong>\u02bc<\/strong>ef\u00e1p\u00a0enmrraw\u00e1n\u00a0pex<\/strong>,” without changing the meaning at all. \u00a0In this instance, “was running very quickly” would take a small amount of emphasis as it was uttered first.<\/p>\n

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Just “Thanks” will do…<\/a><\/p>\n

ndaxa<\/strong>\u031d<\/strong>top\u00e1t yltoxoyo enrr\u00e1yon t<\/strong>\u02bc<\/strong>\u00e1.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is “Thank you” in rr\u00e1p ‘ay\u00e1<\/strong>. \u00a0It translates directly as “I truthfully and gladly acknowledge your grace.” \u00a0It occurred to me that when some one does something that warrants a “thank you,” they are acting (typically) in a gracious manner and it seemed lovely to me to acknowledge that grace.<\/p>\n

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Well, hello…<\/a><\/p>\n

ylyetohye’yo he’ enrr\u00e1yon t<\/strong>\u02bc<\/strong>\u00e1<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

This is a formal greeting. \u00a0It translates as “happily, I am listening (lit. giving (an) ear) with complete honesty.” \u00a0The fictional speakers of rr\u00e1p ‘ay\u00e1<\/strong> place a profound importance on the voice and sound so this would mostly be translated as “I’m Listening.”<\/p>\n

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It’s been fun…<\/a><\/p>\n

yly\u00e1y\u00e1ohye’yo<\/strong>\u031d<\/strong>k<\/strong>\u02bc<\/strong>\u00e9 rr\u00e1 t<\/strong>\u02bc<\/strong>\u00e1!<\/strong><\/p>\n

This would be a formal farewell, again placing emphasis on the voice by saying “Truthfully, I am happy to say that we have spoken.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To Be or Not To Be…in a manner of speaking… tsmykeyena\u031dk\u02bc\u00e9yop\u00e1l hyohye’yo xa\u031d enrr\u00e1yon t\u02bca; vinak\u02bctol rr\u00e1yom yvet\u02bcyo prrki’\u00e1t mp\u00e9. I’ve found having people come to me and say “how would you say…in your language” REALLY helps to boost the vocab AND to inform my development of the culture of this people. As an example, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}