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Learn Dothraki => Dothraki Language Updates => Topic started by: Memziri on March 22, 2012, 01:40:16 pm

Title: David J. Peterson's AMA on reddit!
Post by: Memziri on March 22, 2012, 01:40:16 pm: http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/r849y/mathchomaroon_my_name_is_david_j_peterson_and_im/ (http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/r849y/mathchomaroon_my_name_is_david_j_peterson_and_im/)

Are all of you there asking questions already? =)
Title: Re: David J. Peterson's AMA on reddit!
Post by: Qvaak on March 22, 2012, 04:44:51 pm: I think I have already asked more than my share elsewhere, and will be asking much more...
But there are surprisingly many exellent questions already there - and good answers too. Interesting, to say the least.
Title: Re: David J. Peterson's AMA on reddit!
Post by: Qvaak on March 23, 2012, 01:23:18 am: I'll probably add most of this stuff to the wiki (vocabulary, that is) soon myself, but for time being, le's collect a rough round-up on new(ish) tidbits here:

Ivezhevethchiva qifokha she addo ajjalani.
"The horned-water beast bacons at midnight"
- seems funny to me that "bacons" is translated as a verb, but nonsense is a tricky thing.
- I remember wondering a moment ago about time prepositions/cases; this probably isn't the first time we see it, but as I did not really know, might be noteworthy that she is used.
- qifokh - bacon

Anha nemo afichak orze ma jelloon meshes. Emmas mae fothaan majin anha zalak volderat kristasof yeri.
"I'll have a shoe with cheese on it, force it down my throat, and I want to massage your Grandmother"
- again: it's tricky interpreting nonsense. I would have read the english version completely differently.
- orze is probably an epenthesis-induced accusative, so this "shoe" could be orzo from phrase "Me orzo!".
- We have emmat (causative of emat), but the meaning is ..eh.. a bit off. Might be a different word; might be just a bit different translation.
- volderat - to massage
- kristasof - grandmother ...strange that we don't have the word krista

niqikkheya - orgasm ...part of the result of rigidity? Probably pretty much.

Rek rakhi nharesi ithka'thim vindee hatifaan.
"that blonde hair kid needs to be stabbed in the face"
- rakhi - boy (insulting) ...this is corroborated on another comment
- ithka - blonde

Kash anha dothra vaesaan kash anha nem ilde ki loqami.
"While I rode to the city then I was hit by an arrow"

gomma - human mouth ...we have this just as mouth
hoska - animal mouth
govak - fucker (insult)
mattek - limper (insult) ...mattelat is probably "to limp"

Hovakraft anni nira gezrisoa evethizi.
"My hovercraft is full of poison water snakes."
- we need to coin some unofficial word for a hovercraft.
- note: poison-water snakes, not poison water-snakes... this makes sense

ijelat - to practice woman-on-top sex
athijezar - woman-on-top sex

jaqqa - executioner (or something to that effect)
adverb-like use of lekhaan as "enough"
arrissat - to fix

arrane - 'a public dressing down (i.e. a word for when you lambast someone in public in order to shame them in the eyes of others; derives ultimately from a word meaning "merciful")' ...I'm still a bit unsure of the exact meaning. Humilation by public flogging? Humilation by public scolding? Seems to be pretty close to "public humiliation".
karlinqoyi - gallop fast enough to kill a horse, if prolonged
kadikh - "an animal that's been captured but not yet tamed"
ita - suitably warm
fitteya - "an unnoticed and uncalled-for erection"

lakkhat - to chew
khizra (ni.) - marsh
khiro (ni.) - flag
Title: Re: David J. Peterson's AMA on reddit!
Post by: Hrakkar on March 23, 2012, 01:54:34 am: Good grief! I hope David can somehow keep up with all that!

Interesting new words....
Title: Re: David J. Peterson's AMA on reddit!
Post by: ingsve on March 23, 2012, 05:24:54 am: Quote from: Memziri on March 22, 2012, 01:40:16 pm
http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/r849y/mathchomaroon_my_name_is_david_j_peterson_and_im/ (http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/r849y/mathchomaroon_my_name_is_david_j_peterson_and_im/)

Are all of you there asking questions already? =)

BTW. Nice to hear from you again zhey Memziri.
Title: Re: David J. Peterson's AMA on reddit!
Post by: ingsve on March 23, 2012, 05:27:52 am: I also contributed to the AMA by posting a question.

I registered under the name Astik and asked "M'athchomaroon, zhey lekhmovek. Hash yer ezhir ma vojjoroon mela mra shekhikh jalani dei?"

Can anyone figure out what I was asking?
Title: Re: David J. Peterson's AMA on reddit!
Post by: Qvaak on March 23, 2012, 09:44:43 am: Quote
I registered under the name Astik and asked "M'athchomaroon, zhey lekhmovek. Hash yer ezhir ma vojjoroon mela mra shekhikh jalani dei?"
Yep. But I had to google it. Shekhikh jalani dei is a damn cool expression, but my instinct on mra threw me off a bit.
Title: Re: David J. Peterson's AMA on reddit!
Post by: Hrakkar on March 23, 2012, 09:36:06 pm: Very clever ;)