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Jan Challenge '12 by far-from-earth, literature
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Jan Challenge '12
BEING POLITE
INFORMAL
In Lana culture, family is not strictly the people who are blood related to you. "Adoptions" or ramadioa are frequent and occur at any age, during which an individual is brought into a family through both formal and informal legal means. People frequently address each other by name preceded by a kin-term even if they aren't legally or genetically related.
If you don't know their name, you can get away with calling almost anyone within 10 years of your age in either direction Mofema, a word which refers to a difficult-to-trace-relation, lateral in-law, or cousin. A
standing under time by far-from-earth, literature
Literature
standing under time
Our under doesn't stand no moor, no bog, no swamping friends
with-in
formation.
We March into April on the legs
of a table in the back of the store with the bargain
sail. We can ship out it the mourning
and we-greave
is dented, but what can you dew, collected in bars,
stored in the mint: refreshing, invigo-
ratings change from day to day:
nickels, dimes, quarters of the-
hour thyme stops growing after we're born,
but we're going to use it anyway.
February Conlang Challenge by far-from-earth, literature
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February Conlang Challenge
'yes'tude, Ai don meka en pis'sa, ito Ai fain au, Ai mis som inguridiens.
Yesterday, I was going to make a pizza when I found out I was missing some ingredients.
Perona, esoi mekedai a pis'san tebu rekovoi a beroi a ekadasen asero.
Ai don disaida duraif tu da stor.
I decided to drive to the store.
Diaroi tamarai a ho posara.
Ai don duraif intu da parukin lauta so tebu Ai go intu e supauta, e omo na pinukasere dures don pus en turali pe mai car.
I pulled into the parking lot and as I was trying to pull into a spot, a woman in a really pink dress pushed a trolly in front of my car.
Jusoi a hona noguloku so tebu eforoi nugoi hona loku, u
-na vave- short and glossed by far-from-earth, literature
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-na vave- short and glossed
inanoi a
ube posatunuku umelan
viko omeno go
so senato
tebu suja
eso unada nagoena:
ke mutoaku hal ameloi e
gesasuku hal jusoi so nusoi ise
bevesebia hal sokohoi e
so basenoi na vave.
Gloss
key to abbreviations of grammatical terms
1sg......First person, singular pronoun
O.........Object
1sgPs....First person, singular possessive pronoun
Neg......Negation
2sgIf....Second person, singular pronoun, informal
inan-oi a (Line 1)
wonder-tense:past 1sg
ube posatu-n-uku umela-n (Line 2)
about tomorrow-O-and 1sgPs everything-O
viko omen-o go (Line 3)
which come-tense:present after
so senat-o (Line 4)
and believe-pres
