05-10-2025, 07:19 AM
(04-29-2025, 04:04 AM)Kazzie Wrote: "May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be at your back."
A saying used when bidding someone farewell
"Ola nikira gije rejite ku, ola ne sijimi vit ko'giku akija."
"May roads rise {to-meet} you, may the wind be {at'your} back."
I wound up doing a future tense of "meet" for "to meet" and I think that makes sense. Having a future tense for verbs is a bit of a different way of thinking so "ni jitet" would also work as a literal translation of "to meet", though I think it's less accurate as "to" does a striking amount of heavy lifting in English and the meaning can have a lot of subtle differences I think?? Worth considering. "Rise" also has no tense to make this work, which is valid though possibly able to be truncated through a more messy translation, though I think even then "The road will rise to meet you" is the closest that would get and just doesn't mean the same thing. I also did some general rephrasing to make this remotely flow when spoken.
Really gotta mind words ending with consonants here and keep them rare. They absolutely demolish any hope of actually speaking this spoken language. I can see the demons truncating things down a lot for flow, and wound up revising some of the additions here while keeping that in mind.
New words: 4 (shockingly low, considering the phrase itself)
New or refined concepts: at least one damn
Critical thinking employed: oh god