selylindi comments on Linguistic mechanisms for less wrong cognition - Less Wrong

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Comment author: selylindi 30 November 2015 02:48:55AM *  4 points [-]

"The father of my mother feels (passively) that that my left ringfinger touches him 2 centimeters in inferior direction from his right earlobe" (At the present he lies on his back, so inferior is not the direction towards the center of the earth).

tê ömmilek audyal íčawëla tê adlaisakenniňk qe oeksrâ’as oimřalik akpʰialîk êntô’alakuňk

There you go. :) It's a very literal translation but it's overly redundant. A hypothetical native speaker would probably drop the "audyal" verb, deframe "íčawëla", and rely more on Ithkuil's extensive case system.

Incidentally, "Dear readers" is "atpëkein".

Comment author: ChristianKl 30 November 2015 10:26:58AM *  1 point [-]

Thanks, I update on it's capacity.