Hallo hallo!

[OSCAR HERRERA]

ik im ahtauliff jeram....i am 18 years.....ik im niunliff jeram...i am nineteen years old...


--- On Fri, 12/19/08, Johann von Messer <furry_von_messer at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Johann von Messer <furry_von_messer at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [gothic-l] Hallo hallo!
> To: gothic-l at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, December 19, 2008, 11:39 AM
> I'm really excited to be in this group. I've been
> longing to speak
> with another person who is studying Gothic (as opposed to
> resurrecting
> Joseph Wright or Wilhelm Streitberg from the dead). Dead
> languages
> have always been my specialty it seems. But the harder
> things,
> phrases, what have you always befuddle me. So maybe I can
> get some
> help here, as well as offer everything I know to this
> community! :D
> 
> I spend a lot of my free time reading my countless books
> and websites
> on Gothic, trying to bring modern English and Gothic
> together. Such as
> dates, years, names, etc. Basically, I'd like to type
> out some of the
> things that I have translated (or believe I have, I've
> learned quite a
> bit just looking through this group that my books never
> shared).
> 
> Saei Sokeiþ Gajukeiþ
> (( As close as I could get to )) Who tries wins
> 
> þuk ahmin meinin nima
> I bring/take you into my heart (( Obviously not hairto ))
> 
> Jah aftra laistand eis þizai saiwalai afar
> (( A line from a song, though this looks rather horribly
> done to me now ))
> And again they chase after the mind/sense/whatever you
> translate 'Sinn' as
> 
> Liuta is
> You are a hypocrite
> 
> Jabai þu gaurs sijais, þau gaurs sijau
> If you are sad, then I am sad
> 
> Fraletiþ þamma ansau wiganis
> Set free the God of War, Let the God of War roam/free
> 
> Sa airus Iohannis im
> I am the messenger of John/Johann
> 
> Andnam þrins bokos
> I received three books
> 
> Arait ain(hw)arjizuh fraleweiþ
> Aryte betrays all
> 
> Arait sa fijands ist
> Aryte is the enemy
> 
> Andweihats þo frawaurht
> Fight against the corruption
> 
> This is where I have major issues and need more than just
> corrections:
> 
> Im (jere ahtautaihun)/(ahtautaihunwintrus) suns (jere
> niuntaihun)/(niuntaihunwintrus)
> I am eighteen years old, soon nineteen. (( When looking
> this stuff up,
> I found many examples, but never any that fit, so I
> modified them as
> best as I could to fit here. What do you think or am I just
> being
> annoyingly backwards? It appears to me that Gothic does not
> have a
> passive past. But I'm assuming the sentence can be past
> by saying
> 'was' instead of 'am.' Let's see... ))
> 
> Wairþaida/Warþ gabaurans Faibruarjus .ie.
> (fimftataihunda), (( can't
> type the numbers in here)) .900+900+100+90. (þusundi jah
> niun hunda
> jah niuntehund)
> I was born on February 15, 1990
> (( I know a ton of genetive should be thrown in the
> numbers, but I'm
> really stumped on it. Excited to see though how many I got
> right. <:D ))
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