Re: antonyms: regretful & tasty
| From: | Muke Tever <muke@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 10, 2003, 4:42 |
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From: "Dirk Elzinga" <dirk_elzinga@...>
> This reminds me of the time when I was transcribing a Shoshoni word
> list. My wife was helping me, and she came across a word for a very
> specific cultural item and asked, "You mean they have a word for
> something like that?" I just replied, "finial." She got the point.
Mmm, finials. :x)
But there are all sorts of words with obscure semantic values that float around
here. "paisley", "cuckold", "siphon", etc...
*Muke!
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