Totally radical, dudes! Today the tireless gnomes of ConWorkShop go straight for one of the fundamental building blocks of modern life, as our theme of the day is things made of paper. Since paperwork is the basis of civilisation as we know it, one cannot really complain that the theme would be overly narrow in scope. So I took the opportunity to create some (surely desperately needed) bureaucratic terminology.
home· toteti koña ratoiru· yo niyati houpe teñeñi yakaseyo:
government.NOM | indeed.I whole world.NOM | Q actually paper-EXESS make-PPP be-PRS-NEG-Q
Isn’t the government, indeed, the whole world, really made of paper?
kave /ˈkɑve/ n. 1. R person, woman;
2. R inhabitant of (X-kave, inhabitant of X);
3. IN man, game piece (esp. of 3-D design rather than a flat tile);
4. R (law) person (whether legal or natural), legal subject
kaverutoki /ˈkɑveɹuˌtoki/ n. IN personhood, state of being a person
sinivano /ˈsiniˌvɑno/ n. IN excessive amount of bureaucracy, paperwork; red tape
rañiñarakave /ˈɹɑŋiŋɑɹɑˌkɑve/ n. R (law) legal person, a corporate or other entity with standing in law (cf. vopasipukave)
visohou /ˈvisoˌhou/ n. IN writing paper, paper for writing
vopasipukave /ˈvopɑsipuˌkɑve/ n. R (law) natural person, an individual sapient (cf. rañiñarakave)
houkaru /ˈhouˌkɑɹu/ n. IN paperwork (for excessive paperwork, cf. sinivano)
houpiñi /ˈhouˌpiŋi/ n. R papermaker
houpiri /ˈhouˌpiɹi/ n. IN paper bag
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