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Re: USAGE: names for pillbug/wood louse/woodbug

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Friday, March 12, 2004, 18:28
Tim May:
> So, does no-one have a word for these things in their conlang?
I don't have a word for "eye" or "head", and my dictionary file only has a little over 2000 entries, but, I find, I do have a word for "woodlouse": ighghi. ifba feint, dry run, mime; make as to do X, without actually doing X iffila dragonfly ighghi woodlouse ighmeje lamb [young sheep] igkhwob "a specific but randomly-chosen illustrative example, serving the communicative function of a bound variable in some hypothetical proposition" [WHAT?!] --And.

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