Re: Genderless Lingo
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 20, 1999, 20:15 |
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Steg Belsky wrote:
> So, i don't see what would prevent anyone from, for instance, using a
> verb 2MRQ for "to become an American"
IIRC, the American dialect of Syrian Arabic uses the verb "tamraj",
"to become an American", parallel to Standard "tfarnaj", "to become a Frank
[Western European]".
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