I'm not feeling a tug-o-war seems more that everything that was below is now above & vice versa or that what was inside is now out and outside is in...Posted by araucaria (here)
Thank you Nora - sounds exactly right, up to and including using 'cheerio' to mean 'hello' (in the UK at least, it invariably means 'bye'); I seem to have done that myself this week... a new kind of swan song perhaps![]()
My description I feel is lost in the translation, in the words. Maybe I am trying to say the world is upside down or inside out?
Breathing life into life
Yes, perhaps a sweet lament of new beginnings.
Sometimes I get confused with words, I'm learning Spanish and Lakota. Songs too. I sometimes mix up my English verbs and word endings now. There are French words in Lakota too. But I am having fun with it.
The Lakota do not have words for hello or goodbye.
a woman greeting a good friend would say maske (mashkay) and a man would say hau.
Welcome (literal translation -it is good that you are here) Taŋyáŋ yahí (pronounced) daneeahn yahee and goodbye (travel well) is Tókša akhé (Doqsha akay)
Hanhepi waste (anheypee washtay) skuye iha ble (skueyea ee-hahn blay) wanzigzi wichothita -Good night and have good dreams villagers
Love
Nora





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