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Re: The pitfall of Chinese/Mandarin

From:Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>
Date:Saturday, December 8, 2001, 21:36
Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Totally irrelevant, but is "Taiwanis" a mispelling of "Taiwanese", > or is it chalked on people-names like "Pakistanis", "Iraqis" etc?
-i in that sense seems to have become a productive morpheme in English; it's widely used in popular scifi, for example. -- Anton Sherwood -- http://www.ogre.nu/