Forgive me for dragging up an old topic but I joined the forum specifically to comment on this aircraft.
First off, an amazing aircraft and simply stunning painting. The layout of the ikran design along the curves of the aircraft is brilliant and the World War II style spitfire snarling nose is a stroke of genius. I'm incredibly envious and hope that this aircraft gets the praise and recognition it deserves. You have a one of a kind masterpiece and I hope it serves you well.
Secondly, as a pilot I'm incredibly happy to see such a lovely aircraft. However, as a huge fan of Avatar (the film) and the created Na'vi language I'm super impressed and excited. I'm one of the many people learning the Na'vi language, expanding it, and teaching others who are interested in learning. It's been a fascinating experience that has taught me a lot about languages, other cultures of the world, allowed me be on national TV
, and has allowed me to meet some really fascinating people including the inventor of the language itself; Dr. Paul Frommer.
That's mainly why I wanted to post here. On our forum
LearnNavi.org, which you mentioned before but it was during a period where the co-location facility for our server was having issues which resulted in damage to our server. It took us a few weeks to replace the damaged hardware but it was clearly unfortunately timed. "Very sad, only." In any case, one of our members (Roland from Germany) apparently stumbled upon your amazing aircraft and your interesting choice of name and posted it
in our forum.
That's where I saw it and after some discussion I mentioned it to Dr. Frommer, who I've become friends with over the last few years. He commented back;
"To echo one of the commenters, "Wow! Just wow!" That is simply wonderful."
He asked if he could post it on his Na'vi Language blog, which
you can find here.
Allow me to translate as he often writes much of his posts in Na'vi:
(My translations added in red)
Tsamsiyu a mì Saw ’Rrtayä!
Warrior in Earth's Sky Warrior in Our Sky!
Fì’uti nivìn, ma smuk:
Look at this, siblings (not literally, used to mean more "siblings in spirit") Tsamsiyu
Am’aluke ’erong Na’vi mì seng a eltur tìtxen si!
Without a doubt Na'vi is being found in interesting places.
Oh, and yes,
tsamsiyu was pronounced well by the actors in the film. "Tsam" is like the word "tsunami" but without the -un- part and the -i on the end. "si" is like the English word "see". "Yu" is like the English word "you" but without any of an "o" sound. The syllables are tsam-si-yu. Interestingly enough, your nickname "tsam" is also a word. It is the Na'vi noun for "war". Tsam + si makes the noun "war" into a verb (literally "make war"). The final "-yu" is a suffix that turns a word into the agent of the verb. In this case the "agent" of war is a warrior.
Oh goodness, I've managed to start teaching Na'vi again. I'll stop before I scare anyone off.
However, let me just say this: "Oe tswìyevayon ngahu." (
I will fly with you.) (Oh, that's a tongue twister.)