Re: Pequeno (was Re: Pilovese in the Romance Language Family)
| From: | Campbell Nilsen <cactus95@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 5, 2008, 1:26 |
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"She wore an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny..."
is a good example.
"Define 'cynical'."-M. Mudd
----- Original Message ----
From: caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
Sent: Friday, April 4, 2008 11:06:26 AM
Subject: Re: Pequeno (was Re: Pilovese in the Romance Language Family)
>ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
>Plus, there's an onomatopoetic _tendency_ in many languages to use
>[i] to express smallness ~high pitch ~nearness etc. vs. [a, u] for
>the opposites.
teeny-tiny, teeny-weeny & itsy-bitsy vs. humongous. 8-)
Charlie