Monday, May 18, 2009

Just a little more silliness

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Epistle XLIV: Can you we they trade jobs, the question?

You just going to dance about and no be doing any work at all? Oh xhèjern thiînaka khaingósa khaûnaka, oh Nǚshén Megami, oh Cælestial one. How come you no have to do any of the toiling at all? Oh sure you the going and free all the slaves, and what the big difference been for us? I worked for the Qhíng all my life, all the months and years and years of it, and yes that was bad, but now still I we the scrubbing the floors and napping in the corner and hiding from Grandfather Thiêfhilos and trying to get Aîya to do all my work. Where the why the how do I get your job? Anyway I can apply to be a ballerina princess? I good at dancing, I can skip about upon the warship and not have to do the cooking and cleaning and having Puîyos the carrying me all about. I have wings! I want the Crown Prince to carry me all around.
We the rest of the slaves just think you making the whole thing up. Sure, you have some really weird scars on your wings, the rest of you us them far too polite to mention it, but it look like someone breaking all your bones and sitting on you. But you not really so hurt enough that you can’t lick the deck clean. And why I keep getting the job of keeping Xhnófho non-hyper? The he guzzling down the pink lemonade as fast as he can smuggle it into the fleet, and the next thing I know Honored Fhèrkifher crying out, Somebody better get some slaves to help Xhnófho staggered upright, we can’t have the sub-admiral puking in front of the Crown Prince. Yeah, I clean up Pirate mess all the time! And do I complain! Yeah! And do anyone listen! No!
So, just for to show you that I no want to be slave any longer, I we decided to take vengeful justice on the caste system of your language. See, Grandfather Thiêfhilos, he the one ordering us around all the time, thin old man he’s like a twig man, that’s what he is, a thin twig man, hope a big wind just blow him down on his twig tummy, he saying that Babel have seven castes to it and some caste do the subject and others the whatever it is, and I’m thinking, sure, I bet one caste does all the work and the other castes say, Oh I think I’ll take a preposition and just sleep through the rest of the sentence. Yawn. I can’t be bothered with syntax. I one lazy dative caste. And don’t even get me started on the instrumental caste. What is that supposed to be? A type of fungal soup?

So, for the rest of the day I we have decided to mess up the caste system. Sure, Babel is an agglutinative language, but now we’re going to inflect it in squishy squishy ways. The affixes are in rebellion! These xhìqhila cases are dance dance dancing!


New Rebellion Caste!
This is what it means!
This the old stinky Caste!
Nominomative
Ulqwos
The one-eyed coyotl-jaguar doing it on purpose
Fhwárqhayan
Voxomoximative Voximus Maximus
Ulqwe
Hi, one-eyed coyotl-jaguar!
Aîfhwárqha
J’accuse!
Ulqwom
Done to the one-eyed coyotl-jaguar
Fhwárqhayùpwar
Genesis
Ulqwos
Of the one-eyed coyotl-jaguar
Fhwárqhayòlkha
Ablivimative
Ulqwón’
From the one-eyed coyotl jaguar
Fhwárqhayèkhmo
Dative
Ulqwói
For the one-eyed coyotl jaguar
Fhwárqhayàswaor
Locomotive
Ulqwoi
In the one-eyed coyotl jaguar
Fhwárqhayèxhyeu
Instrumentivemive Minimus
Ulqwo-x
It chanced that the one-eyed coyotl jaguar
Fhwárqhàyepakh

Oh, I can the making pretty charts too. So the fhwárqha declension not silly enough for you! I the way going to make something so incredibly fun, you going to dance the words all the very night long!

Anyone e'er thought about writing in this space before?
Language will Never Be the Same Again!
Ha ha ha ha hah!
Poor old castes they won’t have any one scrub their particles and inflect them anymore
Onomatothete
Kirya
The sky ship went about to do this
Talqantàntheyan
The Book Case
Kiryá
Done to the cruiser
Talqantantheyùpwar
Dative
Kiryan
Unto the air living ship
Talqantantheyàswaor
Ginormous
Kiryo
Of the air yacht
Talqantantheyùlkha
Possessive Construction
Kiryam’a
Belonging to the seastead
Talqantantheyèntir
Locative
Kiryats’e
In the vimāna vessel
Talqantanthèyaloi
All for me none for you
Kiryanya
Untowards the quickship
Talqantanthèyutakh
Obliterative it all again
Kiralyo
From the paradox ship
Talqantantheyèpwo
Instrumental
Kiryanen
It chanced that the suabōg
Talqantanthèyepakh
Just here for to pay my respects
Kiryas
In the context of the sky ship
Talqantanthèyatser

Oh that not crazy enough for you! Then I we the preposing the strangest bestest wildness most unfetteredest caste system in the history of time and doughnuts and space. Revealing, this:

This is a perfectly good space on the letter to leave jokes and insults. Not like we the insulting anyone around here though.
Super Rebellious Caste!
Tee hee hee hee hee!
Bet you’d never guess this meaning! Hah hah hah hah hah!
Your old stinky caste thing!
Nomen omen
Puu
The tree doing something of its own accord
Úlaxhéyuyan
Partimotive
Puuta
Some of a tree
Úlaxhéyuyòtya
Gigimous
Puun
Of the tree
Úlaxhéyuyòlkha
Inessive
Puuts’a
In the tree
Úlaxhéyuyèxhyeu
Elative
Puusta
From the tree
Úlaxhéyuyèkhmo
Illative
Puukh’un
Into the tree
Úlaxhéyùyaloi
Adessive
Puulya
On the tree
Qir úlaxhéyu
Obliterate!
Puulta
Away from the tree
Xhrir úlaxhéyu
Allative
Puulye
Towards the tree
Úlaxhéyùyutakh
Abessive
Puut’a
Without the tree
Úlaxhéyuyèlwil
Prolateriatprolative
Puutse
Along a tree
Xhnir úlaxhéyu
Translative
Puuk-si
Becomes a tree
Sopaingate’ úlaxhéyu xhroe
Essive
Puuna
Like unto a tree
Úlaxhéyuyèthya
Comitative
Puuné
Associated with a tree
Úlaxhéyùyuqei
Instrumative Nothing to see here folks time to go home
Puunè
It chanced that a tree
Úlaxhéyùyepakh

There you have it. Vengeful justice best served with giggles and plenty of iced cream. Not like we slaves getting any iced cream. That only for the big folk. Big folk who have rooms and beds and toys et cet. Well, I’d better start going back to toiling.
Get back to work Empress of Tomorrow!

Your loving slave,
Fhólus

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