A dancing ostrich...

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A dancing ostrich...

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:eng: There's an ostrich dancing in my shower.

:con: Wateu

Tegaa ta yamitia kemiwi i ta koroire o mai.
tegaa ta yamo-tia ke-miwi i ta koroire
be.there INDEF bird-ground ANTIPASS-dance LOC DEF shower GEN 1s
[t̻eˈŋɑː t̻aː jamoˈt̻ʲiːa kemʲˈiːwi iː t̻aː koɾoˈiːɾe oː mʲai̯]


Edit: With the new, improved orthography:

Tegaa ta amitia i ta koroire o mai.
Edit: With the supernew, superimproved orthography:

Cegaa ca yamicia kemiwi i ca coroire o mai.
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Korpasian

Zboki ko dušulma strutšon yav.
[zbɵˈkikɵ dʊˈɕulmɐ strʊˈʨon jav]
Zboki-Ø=ko duš-ul=ma strutšon yav
dance-3SG.ATEL=REL shower-LOC=my ostrich there.is
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Xing wrote::eng: There's an ostrich dancing in my shower.
:con: Arasamean:
O o tashs laatchewejijaç
[o o taSs la:t-chewe-jɨ-jaC]

* * | dance large-kick-bird-do
dominant clause | big flightless bird do dance

On sitif vwo feele feele
[on sitif vwo fe:le fe:le]

* box rain keep | keep keep
My shower | LOCATIVE.within

(because what's the first thing you do when you build a city (sitit) ? you build boxes (sitif))
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:fra:

Il y a une autruche qui danse dans ma douche.
he ADV.PRON have.3S a.FEM austrich who dance.3S in my.FEM shower
[i li 'a y no.'tXyʃ ki 'dɑ̃s dɑ̃ ma 'duʃ]
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:eng: There's an ostrich dancing in my shower.

:con: Zidhgebzhail - borrowing 'ostrich' from English

ostritsh bispaagwouth-vae Edrien
Spoiler:
ostritsh-Ø bispaag-wouth-v-ae Ø-Edrie-n
ostrich-ABS.SG.M shower-INESSIVE.SG.M-1-GEN.SG.M PRS-dance-SIMPLE
Ostrich is dancing in my shower
Life's a bitch, then you die.

Zidhgebzhail Orthography
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:roc:
有隻鴕鳥在我洗澡間裡跳舞。
yǒu zhǐ tuóniǎo zài wǒ xǐzǎojiān li tiàowǔ
be COUNTER ostrich LOC 1 bathing-room in jump-dance


:jpn:
ダチョウがシャワーで一羽踊っている。
dachō ga shawā de ichiba odotte iru
ostrich=SUBJ shower=LOC one-COUNTER dance.GER-PROG
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:swe:

Det är en struts som dansar i duschen.
det är en struts som dansa-r i dusch-en
3s be.PRS INDEF ostrich REL dance-PRS LOC shower-DEF
[deːː ɛn ˈstɾɵ´ts sɔm ˈdànsaɾ ɪ ˈdɵ´ʂɛn]
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Could you add the tones? :3
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Visinoid wrote:Could you add the tones? :3
I added secondary stress.
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Xing wrote:
Visinoid wrote:Could you add the tones? :3
I added secondary stress.
Do you really pronounce dusch with a [ʊ]? I would expect [ɵ].
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Ceresz wrote:
Xing wrote:
Visinoid wrote:Could you add the tones? :3
I added secondary stress.
Do you really pronounce dusch with a [ʊ]? I would expect [ɵ].
Sorry, a typo there, it should of course be [dɵʂ]
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Xing wrote::eng: There's an ostrich dancing in my shower.
:con: Mága

lárua teshíma patài rik pótso múbot kha kó
dance bird walk.GEN PREP place bath of 1SG
[ˈlaɾua təˈʃimɜ pɜˌtai rək ˈpotsɐ ˈmubɐt hɜ ˈko]
"The walk-bird dances at the place of my bath"
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:con: Mií

Pupaúpa nípai tái paútiúúmu ua pái tá/pána tá.
ostrich dance.MASC LOC shower 1s own.MASC/own.FEM 3s.M
[pu˧pa˧u˥pa˨ ni˥pa͡i˧ ta͡i˥˧ pa˧u˥si˧u˥ːmu˧ːa˨ pa˥it˧a˧ /pa˥na˧ta˧]

I'm still not sure how to handle relative clauses. For the moment, a non-reductive strategies have to suffice - until I'm able to come up with anything more interesting. A problem is, that since the words for both ostrich and shower have the same gender (masculine), the "relative clause" is ambiguous. It can, at least technically, mean either that I own the ostrich, or that I own the shower.

One way to disambiguate the sentence could be to say something like the following:

Ua pái/pána paútiúúmu pupaúpa nípai tái tá. ("I have a shower, there's an ostrich dancing in it.")

The active participle ("dancing") is identical to the bare verb stem ("dance").

Btw I think I'll feature this sentence in my forthcoming "useful phrases" series.
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Söi gajaböts la, chöit la chöi agamníötsöiv sítetöiv förhífaz sho, miçnakh.
[søj ˌgadʒa'bøts 'la, 'tʃøjt la tʃøj ˌaga'mnjøtsøjv si'tɛtøjv fø'Xifaz ʃo, 'mɪɕnax]
INDEF ostrich-NOM AUX/PRES, REL-NOM AUX/PRES DEF shower-LOC my-LOC dance PTCL, there.be
There's an ostrich dancing in my shower.
xinda wrote: :roc:
有隻鴕鳥在我洗澡間裡跳舞。
yǒu zhī tuóniǎo zài wǒ xǐzǎojiān li tiàowǔ
I don't know how to do tone thingies, but 隻 is first tone. [:)]
Edit: Still don't know how to do them efficiently, but I've found a strategy since I posted this almost a year and a half ago.
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Re: A dancing ostrich...

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:con: Culphecc Glyw

Struth pha rn gn'yhuugn waat'nagl.
Ø-struth pha r-n gn-'y-huugn waat-'n-agl
INDEF.NOM-ostrich INE exist-3S DEF.OBL-1S.GEN-shower dance-3S-PRESP
An ostrich is dancing in my shower.

(Note: a snippet of Culphecc Glyw's current lexicon - tree, egg, ostrich, damnation, blasphemy. [o.O] )
Edit: Substituted a string instrument for a French interjection.

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tree, egg, ostrich, damnation, blasphemy...
...and Footloose makes six degrees to kevin Baco... er... whoops! Wrong thread.
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:con: Næniusk

Nystø hrattanú rjukótóc herak.
[nỳs.tœ hræ̀.ʰta.nʊ́u̯ ɾʲò̝.kʊː.tʰɔ́ʊ̯t͡s hè.ɾɐk]
ostrich-ABS hygiene-BENE room-(SG-1.POSS)-INESS dance-3-SG
nystø-0 hrattan-ú rjukoe-ó-t-óc hera-a-k

= An ostrich is dancing in my shower.
hmeniajúsoin ázujum
onomatopoesia-INSTR potato

[laɪ̯f ɪz ɒːl̴ əˈbɐʊ̯t faɪ̯ndɪŋ pʰiːpl̩ wɪð ðə sɛɪ̯m ˈmɛn.təl dɪsˈɔː.də æz juː]
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[ʔɔl nũ.næ.rɒ.ʃɪ.θẽn ʔĩ.nu ʔẽ.no nãn.tũ.mãʊ.nɪ ʕɔj.ʣwu.mɔ.tres]
PRP cleansing.place-LOC.SG 1SG.GEN INDF.SG flail.bird-NOM.SG sing.move-PRS.3SG

*NB - A speaker of Rozwi could also say something like "There is a dancing ostrich in my shower" -

Ol nunærašiθen inu eno oidzwumotriš nantumauni yek.

However, this form of the utterance would be more like a response to someone saying incredulously "No there isn't", rather than just stating a fact.

Ol nunærašiθen inu eno oidzwumotriš nantumauni yek.

This is more like an asseveration that "Yes, indeed, there is an ostrich watanaggling in my shower".
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:ryu: Okinawan
我ーがサワーをぅてぃ舞る駝鳥ぬをぅん。
waa-ga sawaa wu-ti moo-ru dachoo nu wu-n.
1-GEN shower be-CONJ dance-ATTR ostrich SUBJ be-PRED.
"There's an ostrich dancing in my shower."
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Lambuzhao wrote:Image

[ʔɔl nũ.næ.rɒ.ʃɪ.θẽn ʔĩ.nu ʔẽ.no nãn.tũ.mãʊ.nɪ ʕɔj.ʣwu.mɔ.tres]
PRP cleansing.place-LOC.SG 1SG.GEN INDF.SG flail.bird-NOM.SG sing.move-PRS.3SG

*NB - A speaker of Rozwi could also say something like "There is a dancing ostrich in my shower" -

Ol nunærašiθen inu eno oidzwumotriš nantumauni yek.

However, this form of the utterance would be more like a response to someone saying incredulously "No there isn't", rather than just stating a fact.

Ol nunærašiθen inu eno oidzwumotriš nantumauni yek.

This is more like an asseveration that "Yes, indeed, there is an ostrich watanaggling in my shower".
I feel the need to inform you that, upon googling "watanaggling," this is the only page that comes up.

Congrats. You just con-Googlewhacked.
Edit: Substituted a string instrument for a French interjection.

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