bizarre (was: Re: CONLANG Digest...)
| From: | Matt Pearson <mpearson@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 7, 1998, 6:07 |
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Herman Miller wrote:
>I don't have a word specifically meaning "bizarre" in any of my languages,
>as far as I can remember; I'd probably use an augmentative form of
>"strange"; "quazixia" in Olaetyan, or "vuzom" in Jarrda.
To say that something is bizarre or unusual in Tokana, you say
"tai emuktinalima etam", which means "that goes backwards".
Interestingly, the verb "emuktinalima" = "to do X backwards"
literally means "to finish before beginning".
Matt.
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