Nai mu. Dei ngemi zyu ha dei ngo a Sepo, ha Kenira, ha Layebiriya, ha Pomi.
I know. He thinks about whether he's US-American, Canadian, Liberian or British.
Dei ngemi u byoi yu ngo Kenirai zwe mbya ndwi u byoi dena do zwe zyi bya u byoi bya gwe nge nge nge.
He thinks about how Canadians use one system in this context and the other system in other contexts bla bla bla.
Dei ze li mundwa u ndoi lo negu zyu dei nebyo zyi Losendyelizi gwe Nyuyoki.
He doesn't figure it out by realising that he thinks about Los Angeles and New York.
U doro do, nwa ngo ngingii nge zyi dyina:
Later, one of the characters says:
"Nai zi gyu zyui nggondzwe ni ye lu Bara Yove."
"I heard there were tornadoes in Europe?"
Do byai nge:
And someone else says:
"Gwe dwei ngi u li baba banggwa. We zyange Bara Yovei zi nggwe dyi ye dzwa nggondzwe ni u zi zyu konggisadzo Sepanyai vwe zywe u lu Notsamerika. U nye do, dwei ngi u lu a Qitali gwe Sepanya gwe Girisi."
"And they’re happening more and more often. European languages didn’t even have a word for tornado until Spanish conquistadors saw them in North America. Now they’re happening in Italy, Spain, and Greece."
Nai zyu dei zyu zei tsunami u zi zyu bu Dyapenii nozyo zywe.
I suppose he doesn't think there were tsunamis until Japan invented them.
Ndyolyai ho, mye vu ye dii gi dzwagi.
The book is good, but some parts of it are pretty annoying.
Byo lo limwe nge zyange zyi me u dyii zyamu wi nyoli do, dei byu zyi u zobye.
The bit about learning the basic words of each others' languages is raced through.
U ga ya giwe qawa do, dwei mu vye wendi wemba dyi.
After a few hours, they know thousands of each others words.
Ndo zyu dwei li mu zyu ndzwai zui ze libyo.
The way they elicit words / know the meanings are the same is not discussed.
