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=== About those Vadi Lawsuits === | === About those Vadi Lawsuits === | ||
The Vadi texts from the [[Vadi#Example_texts|''Kalapái Scriptum'']] consist of correspondence involving two Vadi-speaking farmers who were embroiled in a boundary dispute between their neighboring properties near the end of the nineteenth century. The majority of the texts consist of letters laced with insults and ad-hominems between the neighbors, Sorvin and Éro, with increasing pettiness and immaturity as their lawsuit dragged on. Another set consist of correspondence to Dog Speaker neighbors who could translate Vadi to Minhast. These letters were appeals to the prefect, accompanied with maps and other documentation supporting their territorial claims, in hopes that the prefect would issue a judgment to the respective plaintiff. | |||
The prefect, Baraz min Annu, found himself unwillingly dragged into the fray, as the dispute was causing havoc in Sakkeb Prefecture, his childhood home. The prefect finally intervened after a forest fire, purportedly caused by arson by one of the litigants, broke out and spread to the outskirts of Reštem Township before being put out by a fortuitous rainstorm. | |||
Prefect Annu was known as a fair and progressive leader of his day, but the squabble aggravated him immensely, as his nephew Taššir recorded for his planned satirical novel. The Minhast texts generated from the squabble did not provide any direct help in recording and reconstructing the now-extinct language, but are valuable in their own right as historical material of Dog Speaker Country from the pre-Unification era. | |||
==== Hayyur's Complaint ==== | ==== Hayyur's Complaint ==== | ||
Hayyur, a Dog Speaker from Sakkeb Prefecture, wrote a letter to his Prefect, begging to be released from his service as a courier between the [[Vadi#Introduction|Vadi]] litigants quarreling in a land dispute in the late 19th century. The following text is from a passage indicating his increasing frustration with his Vadi neighbors: | Hayyur, a Dog Speaker from Sakkeb Prefecture, wrote a letter to his Prefect, begging to be released from his service as a courier between the [[Vadi#Introduction|Vadi]] litigants quarreling in a land dispute in the late 19th century. The following text is from a passage indicating his increasing frustration with his Vadi neighbors: | ||
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==== Prefect Baraz min Annu Berating Sorvin ==== | ==== Prefect Baraz min Annu Berating Sorvin ==== | ||
Baraz min Annu | Baraz min Taššir, the nephew of Prefect Annu, upon hearing his uncle complain on multiple times of the troublesome Vadi litigants, became quite fascinated about the farmers' dispute and their subsequent machinations. In one of the chapters of his unpublished novel, he confessed of eavesdropping on various meetings between the prefect and the two litigants. The following passage is an excerpt from his book "Two Cranky Old Farmers": | ||
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