>I made myself memorize it practically...like Ershennen for
>Thank you, but no one EVER got it...so yeah, sometimes being
>hard core sucks, but at least you figured out what I was
>trying to do...meh.

If you do it this way:

Other guy says 'Here. You can have these boots.'

Other guy give you boots.

You say 'Ershennen.'

Other guy says 'Huh?'


But if you say after he gives you the boots: 'Ershennen. I am grateful.'

And he should be able to understand you without understanding 'Ershennen'. After that, you may hope that he guessed what Ershennen means, but I recommend keeping the hint in the sentence.

The trick here that you convey the message that 'Ershennen' contains in 'I am grateful.', so the other person doesn't need to understand Ershennen, but it does give your RP a racial flavour. From 'I am grateful' the other person can either guess Ershennen, or not, but the message will still be conveyed. I did this with Frearrir, using expressions like 'Mre. Fre will come.'(Or in later phase of mre-happiness after it was written in Frearrir's role: Mre. Fre will come, mre.).

I can't see how you get the felar counterparts of you and I to work well in this way, though. But you can make Ershennen work that way. Some words that are without informational content, like Mreowr, which is just a greeting, doesn't need explaining. After all, you could greet people by saying 'Örp.' or 'Wazaa!'. Therefore, the other persons 'Huh?' that follows your 'Mreowr.' can be interpreted as greeting.