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Cultural Keywords Revisited.

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Sunday, November 28, 1999, 0:37
Lat night I was working on ways to express the ways to say likes,
dislikes, and I got into how to express love and hate. Well, i found one
cultural keyword for Saalangal.

In Saalangal, =E1nlal is one of the words to express love. However, the
meaning is a deep, sexual love, as well as a deep spiritual love. It woul=
d
only be used between close lovers and married couples, as well as in
prayers to gods and ancestors. I didn't really think about making it that=
,
it just seemed to come to me as I wrote out the definition. The other wor=
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for love, which is tal, is more like the love between family members and
friends.

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