Errata:

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Hugo Cesar de Castro Carneiro
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> dj - person marker
> +a - 1st
> +u - 2nd
> +i - 3rd
> m+ - dative (applied only to pronouns) - epenthetic vowel must be inserted
>
> reduplication can be used to indicate the amount of something or plural
>
> Nouns ending in:
> -k (action realm),
> -s (spiritual/feeling realm)
> -t (touchable/solid realm)
>
> Noun cases:
> -a (ergative)
> -u (genitive)
> -i (dative)
> - (absolutive)
>
> dependent-marking language
>
>
> Vocabulary:
> wak - weeping
> k - feeling
> surak - falling
> pat - tree
> as - life
> dima - almighty
> bais - underworld
> bak - sending
>
> Nayabo - God of Life, Death and Nature
>
>
> Translation:
> Wakinayabo!
> Wak-i-nayabo!
> Wak-DAT-Nayabo!
>
> Weepings to Nayabo!
>
> dja kaukau mudji surakumadjau patai.
> dj-a k-a-u|k-a-u mu-dj-i surak-u-ma-dj-a-u pat-a-i.
> PRON-1 k-ERG-GEN|k-ERG-GEN DAT-PRON-3 surak-GEN-DAT-PRON-1-2 pat-ERG-DAT.
>
> My feelings for it to the tree falling to our (seeing).
>
> Asa dju dima raku baisubakai.
> As-a dj-u dima rak-u bais-u-bak-a-i.
> As-ERG PRON-2 dima rak-GEN bais-GEN-bak-ERG-DAT
>
> The life you dear to the underworld to sending.
>
>
> The complete story:
> "The man is impressed by the power of the God of Nature"
>
> Condolences to mighty Nayabo!
> I feel too much for the tree we (he and his wife) saw falling upon us.
> The life that you, almighty, sent to the underworld.
>
> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Sam Stutter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Less inventive linguistically:
>>
>> Yabo = hell (masculine)
>> Wakin = blood (unknown gender)
>> Mudji = house (feminine)
>> Pat = property (unknown gender)
>> Sur = nation (unknown gender)
>> Kumadj = trust (masculine)
>> Asa = there
>> Dim = smallness (unknown gender)
>> Raku = boy (masculine)
>> Baisubak = underneath
>>
>> Nominal grammar:
>> +ai = accusative suffix
>> +au = genitive suffix
>>
>> Reduplication is used to mark plurality.
>> The definite is marked with an article. Where an article is absent, the
>> noun is indefinite
>>
>> Adjectival grammar:
>> +a = suffix to agree with masculine noun
>>
>> Verbal grammar:
>> Conjugation of the verb "to be":
>> Dja = 3rd person feminine present
>> Dju = 3rd person masculine present
>>
>> Pronominal grammar:
>> k = 1st person singular
>>
>> Hence:
>>
>> Wakinayabo
>> bloody(masc-agree) hell(m)
>>
>> Dja kaukau mudji
>> be(3f-sing-present) I(gen) I(gen) <our> house(f)
>>
>> Surakumadjau patai.
>> National(masc-agree) Trust(m)(gen) property(acc)
>>
>> Asa dju
>> there be(3m-sing-present)
>>
>> Dima raku
>> small(masc-agree) boy(m)
>>
>> Baisubakai
>> underneath(acc)
>>
>> Literally:
>> Bloody hell! Our house must be a National Trust property. There is a small
>> boy underneath.
>>
>> Which refers to a number of tragic cases of bad tree-maintenance on
>> National Trust land in the UK, in which kids have been squished underneath
>> rotten trees which are felled in the wind.
>>
>> Sam Stutter
>> [log in to unmask]
>> "No e na'l cu barri"
>>
>> On 8 Apr 2012, at 22:41, Billy JB <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> > I'll give it a shot…
>> >
>> > Wakinayabo!
>> > Wak-i-na-ya-bo
>> > woe-ABS-to-1PL-LOC
>> > Woe unto our home!
>> >
>> > Dja kaukau mudji surakumadjau patai
>> > dja   kau~k<a>u                mudj-i         sura-ku-madj<a>u
>> >     pat-ai
>> > now PRF~blow<PST> wind-ABS   down-CAUS-wind<PST>  tree-ABS
>> > Now that the wind has blown, the tree has been windfelled.
>> >
>> > asa dju dima raku baisubakai
>> > asa        dju     dima    raku  baisu-bak-ai
>> > probably good  AUX     call   safety-seller-ABS
>> > It would probably be good to call the insurance man.
>> >
>> > Bweh, I tried at least.
>> >
>> > On 8 April 2012 19:11, Gary Shannon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Just for fun... Here is a cartoon: http://fiziwig.com/kalau.png
>> >>
>> >> Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out what
>> >> it means and produce a gloss for the words in the cartoon.
>> >>
>> >> (For the record, I have no idea what it means. They are semi-random
>> >> syllables I picked just because they sounded nice, and shared bits and
>> >> pieces among themselves in a seemingly plausible roots and stems sort
>> >> of way.)
>> >>
>> >> I thought it might be fun to take the most interesting gloss and then
>> >> do another cartoon with more new "words" and a grammar consistent with
>> >> the previous gloss(es).
>> >>
>> >> --gary
>> >>