Re: Conlang in-jokes.

Actually, I try to resist the temptation.... Don't think I've incorporated
anyone's name into Kash, but I did do a series of mildly offensive slang
terms based on mildly offensive Yiddish slang. And then there's--

calupa [tSa'lupa] a great big mess (Sorry, Taco Bell)

kasu [kaw] a food animal, and its young, kahuna

It's more fun to make amusing derivs. out of real Kash words, like kandola
(slang) 'nose' < kañ- animate agent N sfx + tola 'to smell'-- well, _I_
think they're amusing.

Never mind the assorted deliberate and/or accidental resemblances to
Indonesian or Spanish words, of which the less said, the better.

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