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Re: qechmey

Robyn Stewart ([email protected])

• From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: qechmey
• Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 06:59:07 -0700
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At 01:00 AM 10/21/2007, you wrote:
>Someone suggested translating "I have dysentery" using {ghaj}. My
>understanding is that {ghaj} indicates possession or ownership and so would
>probably not apply to a disease. Could you use {ngej} "infect" - {pom
>vIngej} "I am infected with dysentery"; or perhaps {mungej pom} "Dysentery
>infects me"?

That's how I usually write it. or pommo' bech: "suffers from 
dysentry". (I've used it in fiction and hyperbole). I agree that 
using ghaj is assuming an English idiom translates.

>  On another issue, how do you use {chang'eng}? Would "pair of shoes" be
>rendered "shoes' pair" and so {chang'eng waqmey}?

I'd understand that, but I've no idea how it's supposed to be used. 
Voragh Sa' may provide the answer. 

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