* Roger Mills said on 2003-05-05 17:48:25 +0200
> Stone Gordonssen wrote:
>
> I do know that I was brainstorming a year ago with a friend re:
> > mechanisms not found in natlangs, and one of the few we came up with was
> > reversing the spelling of a word to create the inverse.
> >
> > E.g. "dam" /display emotions/, "mad" /hide emotions/
> >
> In the famous McCawley Festschrift, there's a wonderful article by Murray
> Renthgil (Lightner), a spoof of reports from the field. He expesses
> amazement that some words in the language under investigation are the
> reverse of others, e.g.
> [k@f] 'lower part of the sleeve of a garment'
> [f@k] 'copulate'
*sigh* Now that's a book I'd like to have[1]... if only amazon.co.uk could
cooperate with amazon.com, who claim they have it. Ditto for "The Great
Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language"[2]
"Linguistics wars" is also fine but they have that in the university library.
[1] ISBN: 1556194609
[2] ISBN: 0226685349
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