Navajo
ch'é'étiin = 'doorway'
(lit., 'something has a path horizontally out')
chidí naa'na'í bee'eldǫǫhtsoh bikáá' dah naaznilígíí = 'army tank'
(lit., 'a car that they sit up on top of that crawls around with a big thing with which an explosion is made').
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Gee, that's really interesting, Cameron. Why do you mention it?
Actually, I was just in New Mexico for a phylogenetics conferrence. On the last day, we visited the Taos Pueblo, so I was just interested in Indian languages. Isn't weird that Navajo doesn't actually use verbs in grammatical constructions!
How was the conferrence?
It was mildly interesting. There were a lot of biologists around who I found sort of difficult to work with, but I learned some things, had a nice time in a nice place, and we got some work done on our own project.
cool!
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