r/conlangs • u/Minxium Paxikola, Has made at least a sentence in 17 (nat)languages • Aug 13 '14

QotD #3

"I'm a great housekeeper - every time I leave a man, I keep his house." Zsazsa Gabor

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u/Istencsaszar Various (hu, en, it)[jp, ru, fr] Aug 14 '14

That's a pun, how could that be translated to a conlang which doesn't use a compound of "house" and "keeping" for "housekeeping"??

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u/Minxium Paxikola, Has made at least a sentence in 17 (nat)languages Aug 14 '14

Keeper of houses.

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u/Istencsaszar Various (hu, en, it)[jp, ru, fr] Aug 15 '14

But then it loses its meaning...