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(boing!) Cnoocy Mosque O'Witz ([personal profile] cnoocy) wrote 2004-05-12 09:22 am (UTC)

To have a verb is to be able to do it.

Before and Above are both using the wierd Rikchik pseudo-preposition structure: Me-R-Agent-0 Sun-R-Patient-0 Above-V-End-2 is "I cause the sun to be above" or "The sun is above me." It looks a bit backwards to us English speakers.

Cultural facts: Stars are considered to be alive. There is a simple (they move) and a non-simple (they emit trace amounts of pathonic radiation) explanation for this. Lonely is pretty much the pinnacle of sad for a rikchik. The glyph for the "Sad" morpheme is an abstract representation of two rikchiks on opposite sides of a river. Whether that makes "sadly-ungathered" more obviously "lonely" I don't know. But "lonely" is correct.

In terms of the total sense of the sentence, keep in mind that "Eye-V" is often the best translation for "Hear" and that it's not always clear whether a word (especially a word that has a pronomial to outside the utterance) is singular or plural.

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