From mark@xxx.xxx Fri Aug 27 12:55:19 1999 X-Digest-Num: 223 Message-ID: <44114.223.1232.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: 27 Aug 1999 19:55:19 -0000 From: mark@xxx.xxx Subject: Re: ci te smadi >From: "michael helsem" >Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 08:26:48 PDT > >From: "michael helsem" > >pamaitu'e go mi bacru gi no prenu cu zvati (If I speak, it's >because no one's there.) .ije go mi judytirna gi le prenu >cu djica lenu tavls lo drata be mi (And if I listen, it's because >they want to talk to someone else.) .i mi mo (What am I?) fonxa ke notci zbasu(?) (A telephone answering machine. Not wild about zbasu, but to my surprise vreji had no place for who made the recording) >tu'u .i remaitu'e zbasu mi le te ciska marji (I'm made of the >stuff for writing on,) .iseni'inaibo no prenu fi mi ciska (yet no >one writes on me.) .i calenu mi na zvati kei le fasnu cu banli >mabla (When I'm absent, it's a calamity;) gi'eku'i gu'e zdile >ginai betri (but a funny one, not a tragedy.) .i mi mo (What >am I?) kalci papri (toilet paper. But a different euphemism...) >tu'u .i cimaitu'e gefu'eti'e mi ckaji lepa skari fu'o (They >say I am one color,) gi noroi sisti lemi nu cenba ku'i (yet I >never stop changing.) .i mi dunda le litki poi sarcu le nunji'e >ku'o (I give the liquid of life) .eji'a le brife poi rinka le lenku >margu (& the wind of death.) .i lo prenu mi di'i catlu (People >are always looking at me,) .iseni'inaibo viska fu'epo'o gonai >da poi tugni ko'a goi levo'a se jinvi ge'u (yet they only see >what confirms what they think) gi de poi natke ko'a fu'o (or >what denies it.) .ije calenu le prenu mi vitke kei mi canci >(When they visit me, I disappear.) .i mi mo tu'u (What am I?) tsani (sky?) "mi mo" is maybe too broad a question, I dunno... I only answered because of the challenge of the riddles. :) ~mark