Example Phrases
These example phrases are from the Eastern ǃXóõ dialect and were compiled by Anthony Traill.
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ǃnˤù.ṵ ì à ǁʼà-be ǃù.m ʘàa sâa Hare. take:- Eland. child: thither "As for Hare, she took Eland's child away."
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ǃqháa̰ kū ǂnûm ǁɢˤûlitê ǀè dtxóʔlu ǀnàe ǂʼá sˤàa̰ give two genital:- stench: fat: "Give them their stinking genitals with the fat!"
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Famous quotes containing the word phrases:
“And would you be a poet
Before you’ve been to school?
Ah, well! I hardly thought you
So absolute a fool.
First learn to be spasmodic—
A very simple rule.
For first you write a sentence,
And then you chop it small;
Then mix the bits, and sort them out
Just as they chance to fall:
The order of the phrases makes
No difference at all.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)