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Old 12-17-2011, 06:03 AM
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I have a new ultralight legal, but aerobatic capable aircraft that I designed, and am now finishing building that I would like to give a Na'vi name to.
Because I do so much aerobatics, I would like to call her "Cloud Dancer".
I found "cloud", Pìwopx, and "dance", Srew, but I don't know how to turn the verb to the noun "Dancer". Could someone give me the word, AND teach me how to turn a verb into a noun?
I have a FINE teacher, but this is my first week with him, and I have bugged him enough this week, so no disrespect at all to him, I just want to give him a rest for this one question, and then I will continue picking his brain.
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Old 12-17-2011, 06:16 AM
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-yu IIRC, although you might want to check there isn't any special case for certain words or anything.
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Old 12-17-2011, 06:56 AM
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If it were properly pronounced, it would be fine to be heard, but for someone who had their mind in the gutter to SEE it written on the side of the aircraft, it would be a bad reflection on Pandora, and on Na,vi, so I will leave it in English.
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Old 12-18-2011, 03:39 AM
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Guess who.


Well hello, Niri Te.

Cloud dancer would be something like

Pìwopxä srewyu: Dancer of the cloud / the cloud's dancer
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Old 12-18-2011, 05:44 AM
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Kaltxi Ma Tirea Aean. I was hoping that there could be another way to say it, because if it is painted on the side of the cowling of the plane, and some spectator at an Airshow who has had a beer or two sees it, they would see a lot of letters of a word that they know, their brain will fill in the missing letter, and that would reflect very badly on niNa'vi. As much as that is my nickname among other pilots who know me, and in speech, there would be no problem, I will NEVER run the risk of defaming the language, or the people.
As a result, I will paint Cloud Dancer on the aircraft.
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Old 12-20-2011, 11:47 AM
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I want to see your photo in it - with the name already painted
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Old 12-24-2011, 08:48 PM
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That will happen in the Spring, ma Tsmuke, and when it does, I will load a photo of it into my album, and onto the post announcing the event.
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Old 01-03-2012, 08:08 PM
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wow or shall I say, yay! I'll be looking forward to see it.
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Old 01-04-2012, 06:12 AM
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If you look in the upper left corner of this post, you will see my avitar, and it is a photo of me flying another of my airplanes, which is named "Manu Sina", which is Samoan for Friggate Bird. I am at about 3000 feet and climbing when this was taken.
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Old 01-04-2012, 06:43 AM
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wow that's a good one - the photo & the name, too. 3000 feet - what is it, about 1000 m? this was the height I parachuted from.
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Old 01-04-2012, 06:50 AM
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wow that's a good one - the photo & the name, too. 3000 feet - what is it, about 1000 m? this was the height I parachuted from.
Yes Dream Hunter, about 1000 meters up. I climbed to 2,500 meters to fly where I was going.
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Old 01-05-2012, 03:14 AM
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NICE. I always wanted to fly in a plane like that. I kinda wanna go skydiving too.
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I just think "The Flying iron_jones" would've been a good name.
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