Re: NATLANG: Scary Document
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 9, 2003, 11:38 |
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BP Jonsson scripsit:
> Tibetan
> uses this technique of taking the first syllable of each words in a phrase,
> turning it into an "acrosyllabic compound" (a term I just made upon the
> spot :-)
Chinese, too. Gong1ye4 he2zuo4she4 'industrial cooperative' > Gong1He2 >
English "gung ho" (in the belief that it meant "work together"; though
gong1 is "work" and he2 is "together", the phrase is in fact acrosyllabic).
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