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sannehnagi:

conlangprompts:

“Have you finished the translation yet?”

“Sort of.  It’s a bit unclear.  It’s either ‘If the tomb of the Great King is opened, a great demon shall arise’ or ‘… a great hero shall arise’.  So … yeah.  I don’t know whether to advise that we open the tomb or that we put every security measure we can think of in place around it”

“What? How can it be unclear, it is or it isn’t, right?”
“Well, right here where it says yunagunpu’ dziítiš… normally I would expect a different pronoun for a demon, so I think it says a great fighter of evil, but that should be yunaágunpu’, so it says a great fighting evil. See what I mean?”
“Hmm. Better safe than sorry, right?”