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Preliminary data on language "Eastern" [For Valles' fantasy project]
 
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Played with a new phrase...

Thisima pim boduri. -- "Her Highness is fretting, again."

Thisima -- n. "Princess, Her Highness."

pim -- adv. "again"

bod- -- v. "to fret/worry"

-ri -- conjugal verb suffix indicating continual action.

This is perhaps a bit formal, as "Pim bodu," can get across "You're fretting again," more normally.

*sigh* Part of the perils of developing a language whose canon speakers are by and large formal speakers.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll
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