Re: conlang greetings? (was Re: Let me introduce myself)

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 07:41:11PM -0800, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> Okay, anyone else?  I'll collect greetings in people's conlangs and
> compile them onto my website (with permission, of course).  If you'd also
> like to send in a link to your own conlang webpages as accompaniment, I
> can include those as well.
I have the phonological and morphological basis of Llirine, but these
are the first steps into the vocabulary and grammatical basis. I
probably ought to do a full report to the list on the language, but I
haven't got around to that yet.

There's something basically equal to hello (srep - /sr`@\=\/), and hi
(p - /@\/). There's also a more formal greeting -

ASCII - z^en's^ell tina riten.
UTF-8 - Ĵeƞŝeɬ tina riteƞ.
X-SAMPA - /Z@\NS@\K D1n7 r`1D@\N/
Literally - {The set of sentient beings} {"shine"} {(on) the you that
the essential part of you, as distinct from your external mask}
or, may everyone shine on you.

As, a side note, before this, I would have described my self as a
creator (as opposed to a discover of the language.) But I know that a
sherall who spoke Llirine would feel (correctly) that I don't grasp the
full meaning of this sentence, and that my translation is very
inadequate (as any translation into English may end up being.)

--
David Starner - starner@okstate.edu
Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org
"I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each
one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less."
- "Disciple", Stuart Davis