Re: Is Choctaw a Written Language?

Ekkehard Dengler wrote:
"António Marques" <m.ap@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ekkehard Dengler wrote:
"António Marques" <m.ap@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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'Bom dia' is before lunch, 'boa tarde' is from
lunch to sunset ('sunset' being around 6 to 8 pm), 'boa noite' is after
that.
As a *dismissal*, we don't exactly have a 'good night' - one makes do
with goodbye, see you [some time], sleep well, etc.
What exactly do you mean by "dismissal"?
The functional opposite of 'greeting'?

Not really, except perhaps at school and the like.

....which I hoped would be enough to make it clear given the context. Obviously one doesn't say to friends that they are 'dismissed'. Are you pulling an LSD?

"Dismissal" means
"despedimento", not "despedida", which, funnily enough, seems not to have a
straightforward equivalent in English.

I suppose you could call it 'a farewell' or something involving the words 'parting' or 'departure'...

Yes, 'boa noite' can be used to mean 'good night', but you have to be
careful about the tone and it's best when something else is used
longside. As it is in all of your examples ('Volto Amanhã', 'Por hoje
fico por aqui', 'e saiu'). All by itself, tone or conext may betray the
intent, but in writing are of little avail.

I disagree. You may find this interesting:

<A frase Alemã para "boa noite" ("gute Nacht") é usada pelos Alemães apenas
imediatamente antes de se deitarem. Por exemplo: Se sair de um restaurante e
quiser dizer 'boa noite' ao empregado, use "Auf Wiedersehen" ou "Auf
Wiederschauen". Mas: Se quiser desejar boa noite aos seus filhos, antes de
se deitarem, diga: "Gute Nacht" e eles dir-lhe-ão "gute Nacht" a si também.>

The part where 'Se sair de um restaurante' and 'antes de se deitarem' work like disambiguators?

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