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| It's amazing! Vonderba! I'm going to use it all the time - even in real life! |
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| Yeah, it's pretty cool. I'll take this class and DL a dictionary, and maybe use it in a Gaian language thread. |
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| OMG, Grae, you're such a dork. Why aren't you doing homework? No one will EVER use this. |
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 Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 6:28 pm
Ayaji I meant 'I return!' not 'I've returned!' Would it still be bakgote? You'd probably write Ig bakgoe! (present tense).
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 12:56 am
Ok...hooray for tenses to keep track off><
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 1:03 pm
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 2:15 pm
I'm glad you're enjoying it, Hr Litdor. I'm sorry to see no one finished the last two sentences from the last class. Here they are.
4. Ig vene haben tegen de slega Kat ent eten zi.
6. Maris Broder segte Johan lope hunda.
4. I would have taken the bad cat and eaten it.
6. Mary's brother said John walks like a dog.
The next class session is listed on the syllabus as 'Fun Day'. I'll post some authentic texts from some of the most famous Gaian literature for you to read and enjoy. Look for that in a week or so.
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 2:57 pm
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Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 1:53 am
[ Message temporarily off-line ]
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:33 pm
if i read thos right then i really like them they are so cool
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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 6:10 pm
Has everyone had a chance to read it? When I hear that everyone has, I'll post the English versions and you can compare with your own.
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Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 12:06 pm
[ Message temporarily off-line ]
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Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:06 pm
i was fairly close i didn't do to bad
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:33 am
sweatdrop Was close on a lot of it, but yar, it took me a while to read and figure out. *needs more practice*
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:53 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:45 pm
I hope no one has given up on this, language is an important part to any world dominating force such as ourselves.
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Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:36 pm
Bedura bedura! Sorry, I've been missing in action for so long. I've taken a job as a part-time English teacher at my university and also was taking an upper-division Chinese class, so you can imagine I've been a little busy. Teaching English sort of meets that "want to play with language" fancy I have that Gaian usually meets.
Since I've been such a bad sensei, let's go quickly through these last few lessons, and move on to the all-Gaian chat thread. There's just like 2 more lessons and then I'll post the dictionary and cheat sheets on-line.
So let's look at the remaining rules and some sample sentences using our favorite characters, Mary and John.
Regel 10: You can add –aru and –astu at the end of describing words to say something is ‘more...’ or ‘the most…’.
1. Mari ese de skonastu Meed ax de Veld.
2. Johan ese haslaru dan Sund.
1. Mary is the prettiest girl in the world.
2. John is uglier than sin.
Regel 11: Adding –a to a number changes one to first, two to second, three to third, and et cetera. If you then add the word tida to a number, then you can say once, twice, thrice, et cetera.
1. Ja ena Seging, Mari leebte Johan.
2. Den zi segte duvtida.
1. At first sight, Mary loved John.
2. Then she looked twice.
Regel 12: Yes or no questions can be formed by adding je (yes?) or ne (no?) at the end of a sentence or by moving the verb to the front of the sentence. Other questions use question words like ver, va, ven, var, vafor, hur, or va mik (who, what, when, where, why, how, how much/many).
1. Vile du heeraten mig, Mari?
2. Ver, mig?
3. Du leebe mig, je?
4. Om, vafor du frage?
1. Will you marry me, Mary?
2. Who, me?
3. You love me, right?
4. Um, why do you ask?
OK, and here are the numbers.
0 nul
1 en
2 duv
3 tri
4 fir
5 fiv
6 seks
7 siven
8 axt
9 neen
10 ten
11 ten-en
20 duvten
30 triten
42 fir-ten-duv
100 denten
1,000 tusen
1,000,000 miljon
OK, now if you want you can practice these rules by writing a sentence in Gaian. I'll check back before the next lesson to help you out if you have any questions. This isn't homework, but I hope a couple of you at least will participate.
Metdu!
By the way, I don't know if I told you but Metdu! is a sort of polite way of saying goodbye. It means '(God/fortune/whatever be) with you' just like Adios in Spanish.
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 7:04 pm
Thats gonna be hard to learn. But it'll confuse others that don't know it.
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