Re: THEORY: Reduplication
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 24, 2002, 5:33 |
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At 3:25 pm +0200 23/5/02, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
[snip]
>
>Don't forget the most important: papa and maman :)) . And I never used
>pépé and
>mémé but papi and mami.
>
Just what our grandsons call us - tho they write then as 'papy' and
'mamie' ('cause their mum taught them :))
Ray.
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Speech is _poiesis_ and human linguistic articulation
is centrally creative.
GEORGE STEINER.
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