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Re: Metaphors and Uusisuom

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Saturday, April 28, 2001, 1:37
From: "Daniel44" <Daniel44@...>
> As to confusing meanings, well speakers understand what is meant from > context. If you use 'hanti' in the context of gardening, it's pretty clear > you mean 'flowering', whereas talking about your habitat in Boston would > make it clear you meant 'living'.
From what I see 'hanti' would actually be a rather useless word in the garden. It appears to be impossible in your language (given only one word for both 'live' and 'flower') to describe a flowering plant that, in spite of doing otherwise rather well as a plant [beautiful green foliage, climbing stalks, whatever], has failed in the flowering department. *Muke! -- http://www.southern.edu/~alrivera/

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