Re: Fruitcakes
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 6, 2002, 18:47 |
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On Mon, 6 May 2002 12:14:04 -0400 Christopher B Wright
<faceloran@...> writes:
> You are giving those words too much power. Ignore it for long
> enough, and
> nobody will use it in that way. Sure, whatever word you're talking
> about
> (it was lost in the spam*) will probably stick around, but it would
> have to generalize to stay in use.
> *Spam: Hebrew for "spam"
> Wright.
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Maybe in Modern Hebrew :-P .
Crazy Israelis, abandoning all the cool allophonic restrictions of older
stages of Hebrew!
I'd prefer _espam_ or even _sefam_.
Although actually, since the word _shtayim_ exists, (btw, does anyone
know why/how it breaks the spirantization rules?) i guess _spam_ could
exist too... unfortunately ;-) .
-Stephen (Steg)
"ravnos? what the hell is a ravnos?"
~ gordon "so i jump over the table again" krantz
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