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Re: Googol-Granddaddy

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Sunday, July 21, 2002, 22:00
Dan Sulani wrote:

In a discussion of a recent
>important discovery of a fossil, the article's author used >the following word: "googol-granddaddy" when referring >to the creature whose fossilized skull was found.
Following on my usage in "googlegigglabyte", I guess Kash would have otanji praka-praka "gazillionth great-granddaddy"; otanji is a diminutive of proper otama. ama 'father' otama 'grandfather (of either parent)' otambarok 'great-grandfather' (possibly still living, hence a separate respectful term) otama sila (lit. gf 3) great-great-gf (unlikely still living) otama ha ( gf 4) gr-gr-gr-gf et seq.