Dear Indo-Europeans!
Our spirits are flagging: no activity for a week!
This is no way to win immortal fame (*klewos @ngwhsitom). Here comes a
challenge! Let me propose the following exercise for whoever might be interested
in it. I'll wait TWO WEEKS for responses, then publish the best and/or craziest
ones on my website (with
full credit to the authors) in addition to distributing them among CyBaList
members.
THE FIRST-EVER
PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN PHRASEBOOK
(anticipating the invention of travel in
time and Indo-European tourism)
Propose and justify briefly PIE translations
of the following phrases:
GOOD MORNING.
THANKS.
SEE YOU TOMORROW.
(to a PIE horse:) MOVE
YOUR BLOOMIN' ARSE!
(to a charioteer:) WILL YOU HAVE SOME MEAD?--NO,
THANKS, I'M DRIVING.
WHAT'S YOUR JOB?--I'M A HERO. I
RIDE HORSES. I SLAY DRAGONS AND BEARS WITH MY BATTLE-AXE.
I'M A SHEPHERD. I PROTECT MY
LIVESTOCK FROM WOLVES. SO DOES MY DOG.
If you can't do all of them, do at least one or
two. I'll reveal my own proposals just before the two-week
deadline.
Yours,
Piotr