CHAT: where Padraic and Andrew start getting really silly (was Re: Request for everyone)

[Andrew Smith <hobbit@MAIL.EARTHLIGHT.CO.NZ>]

On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Padraic Brown wrote:

> This has been a cause for some mirth -- oh, all right!  An excellent
> opportunity to have a guffaw at the travellers' expence -- in Kerno, since
> a "reistawrants" is a restorative tonic, most often advertised for the
> restoration of the "vigour of a depleted man". ;-)  An especially good
> laugh if the poor man in question is accompanied by his wife (or etc.).
>
Kernu have no shame.
>
> I like the use or dors here.  The verb weller exists in Kernu, but has
> taken on a meaning rather more like "prefer" or "would rather".
>
In Brithenig gwoler is to want and toir is to like, actually toir snuck in
from a gaelic dictionary so I suspect its roots are goidelic not
brythonic, but its a cute word and no one's challenged me on it so its
safe for now.  Sorry about that.

The back of the country is a Welsh phrase I just found and rewrote into
Brithenig.  It appealed to me to know that even in the northern hemisphere
the outback or the back blocks exist.
>
> Here it might be interesting to note that monis- is the future form of ir
> (to go), a verb actually more irregular that esser (to be).  Its various
> tenses take forms from ir (go), *vader/wadher (rush), monir (ride), and
> esser (be).
>
Brithenig is very conservative for a Romance language.  The whole paradigm
of 'to go' is derived from gwadder, although the stem in the present tense
is reduced to gwa.
>
> similar) that have started more than one "scuffle" in the pub.  The Kerno
> are quite serious about food and rugby and food.  Is not the mixture of
> Latin and Celt a truly explosive combination!? ;-)
>
Food.  Yes.  I knew about the religious fervour that the Romano-British
have about rugby, but I forgot about food.  I will have to think about
that.
>
> oh?  Eo chreddif yn blaned ffew yn disc di bedr (cwn der) cufann subr llo
> dhors di cathr olifann subr yn thartaruch rann nadann per yspas! ;^)
>
Nu ddigen am lla blaned ci, lla wer, Padrig, rhen ill Munn Disc.  Ill munn
di Faistr Terry Pratchett es yn different.

- andrew.

Andrew Smith                                  <hobbit@earthlight.co.nz>
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