At the end of a recent episode ot The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon'e girlfriend Amy pulled out an autoharp and sang him "Soft Kitty" in English, German and Chinese. Of course, I had to transate a Yal Dawo version:

Highu'e Soudti
Toru Soudti
Sae Yabat Zamulth,

Sonw'e Soudti
Depa'i Soudti
Hrrw, Hrrw, Hrrw

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This is what I did at Lunacon 2017:

Friday afternoon, I held a lovely riverside meditation at the Greystone Metro North station for half an hour, waiting for the next train up to Tarrrytown. I'd been doing this commute since the turn of the century; this was the first time I had to make a transfer. Once I got there, I couldn't find the hotel ( Read more... )

#YalDawo:

lunch                          Zômla (n.)

from whixh was derived the casual noun Zoml (a restaurant, or bistro).
For some reason, food (Zem'o) carries a lot of similar sounds.

Excerpted from Felo Jaossiness: The Sartine World List ©2015 Ariel Cinii

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Yal Dawo contains a wealth of prefixes and suffixes to annex various words and shift them from type to type. These either graft (blending into the root with no separation or with an apostrophe) or are free-standing (used before or after the root with a ( Read more... )

Well, since there's no one mighty enough to perform this ceremony, then I suppose we'll have to do it ourselves.
--Garth of Izar, Star Trek: "Whom the Gods Destroy"


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