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From owner-vms-list@voynich.net  Fri Jan 28 04:09:54 2005
Message-Id: <200501280603.j0S637ji021599@mail3.alphalink.com.au>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:03:18 +1000
To: vms-list@voynich.net
From: Jacques Guy <jguy@alphalink.com.au>
Subject: More Piraha (Re: VMs: Welsh/Cornish)

I am reading that story "Killing the Panther"

Sentence 11:

?í kagigía ?iowi hi áobísigío / kagigía ?iowi

(the slash denotes a pause)

Translation:

'Put the jaguar into the same basket with the dog.'

Problem is: the first kagigía is translated as
"with the dog" (lit. "companion"), and the second
as "into the basket".

Here is the breakdown of the first "kagigía":

kag  companion, partner
-igí comitative (with)
-a   be in

And here is the second "kagigía":

kag  basket
-ig  with
-í   into
-a   declarative

It looks like Piraha incorporates a large
telepathic component. It is not unique there:
so does the language of the Smurfs. Vous
schtroumpfez ce que je schtroumpfe? 

Ça schtroumpfe de plus en plus le schtroumpf,
ce que schtroumpfent ces Schtroumpfs d'Amazonie.