Just another few words...

[omängum fra'uti]

With the recent German article which mistakenly attributed my forum name to Frommer, Karyu Pawl had emailed me apologizing for the mixup and assuring me that it was not his words and that he was contacting the reporter about a correction.  In doing so, he'd done a clever play on words in Na'vi with "(p)oe" for me/her (Her being the reporter).  So I commented in response "Oel tse'a kemit a tsatsenge nga soli", as well as "krro tsayhem lolen".

Both evoked a response which involved a new word.  (Or really, a new lexical combination of words.)

On the first, he described it as "Lì'fyavi lesar nìtxan nang!"

On the second he offered up a correction to "Krro len ayhem anafì'u"

[Swoka Swizaw]

Cool. Finally, this part of the board has a pulse.

But Frommer's gotta get the lead out. The world's ending. Layona payìl kifkeyti nìyängekx.

[Kemaweyan]

Txantsan! Irayo, ma tsmukan

On the first, he described it as "Lì'fyavi lesar nìtxan nang!"

Ha tsunslu lì'u a san lì'uvi sìk srak? Fì'u lu oeyä säfpìl nì'aw...

On the second he offered up a correction to "Krro len ayhem anafì'u"

Tsun fko tsive'a futa fìlì'ut ngolop fkol ta san na + fì'u sìk Ftuea sì txantsana fya'o, fpìl oe Irayo karyur

[omängum fra'uti]

Ha tsunslu lì'u a san lì'uvi sìk srak? Fì'u lu oeyä säfpìl nì'aw...

Oe fpolìl tengfya.

[Nyx]

Thanks for sharing I'm a bit curious about that play on words he did, is the whole phrase something you can post perhaps?

[roger]

But Frommer's gotta get the lead out. The world's ending. Layona payìl kifkeyti nìyängekx.

D'you think he's spending all his time on Martian?

[roger]

Thanks for sharing I'm a bit curious about that play on words he did, is the whole phrase something you can post perhaps?

Seconded!

Also, could you ask him what the form of 'such' would be before a noun? With such a common word, I'm sure it's fixed: nafì'ua, or fì'una ?

[omängum fra'uti]

The full phrase with the play on words was just "(p)oeru txoa livu"

[Kemaweyan]

Also, could you ask him what the form of 'such' would be before a noun? With such a common word, I'm sure it's fixed: nafì'ua, or fì'una ?

Sìltsana tìpawm Ulte tsunslu san afì'una sìk maw tstxolì'u srak?

[Swoka Swizaw]

But Frommer's gotta get the lead out. The world's ending. Layona payìl kifkeyti nìyängekx.

D'you think he's spending all his time on Martian?

What is Martian?

[kewnya txamew'itan]

But Frommer's gotta get the lead out. The world's ending. Layona payìl kifkeyti nìyängekx.

D'you think he's spending all his time on Martian?

What is Martian?

He's been asked to make a martian language for another film, hopefully it won't be anywhere near as successful and he'll still focus on na'vi

[omängum fra'uti]

Thanks for sharing I'm a bit curious about that play on words he did, is the whole phrase something you can post perhaps?

Seconded!

Also, could you ask him what the form of 'such' would be before a noun? With such a common word, I'm sure it's fixed: nafì'ua, or fì'una ?

It's the same before or after.

Nafì'ua ayhem
Ayhem anafì'u

[wm.annis]

Because I am paranoid, do we have accenting confirmations on these (not that there aren't very defensible and obvious choices present)?

[Kì'eyawn]

Yay for new words!  Ooh, and a Martian language...  I dunno, i think i'll stay partial to lì'fya leNa'vi.  But maybe those who learn his Martian language can become our "smuk lelì'fya."

...On the second he offered up a correction to "Krro len ayhem anafì'u"

Ma omängum fra'uti, is that "ayhem" correct? 

[omängum fra'uti]

It is yes, why wouldn't it be?

[omängum fra'uti]

It is confirmed, the stress is exactly what you would expect based on the roots.
LÌ'fyavi
nafì'U

[Tsamsiyu92]

So we can tag -vi on nouns to get "bit of a <noun>"? Is it a new adoption?

[Kì'eyawn]

It is yes, why wouldn't it be?

i'm just not used to seeing the "long" plural when there's lenition, so i thought maybe that was still meant to be "tsayhem."  Tì'eyngìri ngaru irayo seiyi oe.

[Kemaweyan]

So we can tag -vi on nouns to get "bit of a <noun>"? Is it a new adoption?

Karyu Pawl poltxe:

-vi is a formative along the lines of what Kirk and Britton have suggested. It's related to "child" (cf. 'eveng, 'evi; also cf. Malay/Indonesian "anak") and is used loosely for the spawn of s.t. bigger. So sparks are the children of the fire. (Cf. also Na'vi!)

[Tsamsiyu92]

^Thank you.