Re: Ethymologie- &-Re: Sally's survey

In a message dated 2003:03:22 07:49:56 AM, romilly@EGL.NET writes:

>Czhang wrote:
>>     --- my favourite Cantonese greeting (other than the ultra-familiar
>"So
>> you have not died yet?" -
>
>Wonderful! That's going to end up in Gwr, if you don't mind
    I don't mind... it's Cantonese anyways & I don't have a copyright to
THAT, hehe.

>-- something
>like, "So, still alive, eh?" Perhaps too, "Well, I see you're still
>ugly....", and with different tones it might mean "the day brightened when
>you arrived", thus, suitable for use with Kash and other outlanders.
    LOL.

>I seem to recall reading that somewhere, the greeting is "Have you bathed
>yet?"  (NOT in the sense, 'you smell'!)
    Mayhaps the same Amazonia tribe that says "wag your tail at god" to mean
the word/concept of "wordship"...  ;)

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