Rikchik Songs (3 of 7)

[cnoocy]

This one may be easier for tahnan and bookishfellow than for rikchik just because of the source.

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[cnoocy]

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.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Hmm, based on your hints, I'm hearing my friends singing, their singing causes a complicated emotion inside my lonely shield, and then the sun rises. Hopefully someone else can recognize that.

[cnoocy]

You're dropping a lot of words there. And where does "cause" come from?

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

It was kind of a half-hearted translation.

[cnoocy]

It's very possible that I'm incorrectly using the relations of Change.