Re: Cheap, shallow and super: French deficiencies
| From: | Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 29, 2004, 18:00 |
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Merhaba!
All languages are different, so of course they are going to have lexical
'deficiencies', but that's how language is, and it hinges only on one's L1.
Quechua has a single word <llunk'uy>, meaning 'to clean the plate and lick
the fingers', and if a Quechua speaker learns English, they probably wonder,
'Why doesn't English have this word?'. Yet we English speakers will find it
odd that Quechua has such a word at all: 'When would one ever use it?'.
Also, see
http://home.bluemarble.net/~langmin/2and1.htm
--Trebor
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