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Re: THEORY: Reduplication

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Friday, May 24, 2002, 15:45
John Cowan wrote:


>julien eychenne scripsit: > >> And if I remember well, the famous Toto we find in every child-joke >> comes from Christophe :) > >Note also toto, titi, tata, tutu = foo, bar, baz, quux. >In Italian it's pippo, pluto, paperino; and in Dutch, aap, noot, mies. >
Culturally deprived midwesterner is unfamiliar with Toto. Dare I ask what these mean and/or refer to?

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