Re: Idioms & Phrases
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 26, 2002, 2:20 |
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On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:20:28 -0700, Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>
wrote:
>The language has a tendency to shorten many common phrases into a single
>word, although everyone knows the expanded form to which it refers. Anyone
>know of another language (con or nat) that does this sort of thing?
Japanese has shorthand words like "waei" meaning "Japanese-English", or
"gessuikin" meaning "Monday, Wednesday, and Friday".
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