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Re: OT: Mildy OT: "Freedom kiss"?

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, March 14, 2003, 22:03
Jean-François Colson scripsit:

> chicon (m) =3D endive (f) > endive (f) =3D chicor=E9e (f)
So Belgian French agrees with English, then? (Endive is the long skinny mostly white stuff, chicory is the one you can make ersatz coffee from the roots)? -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Most languages are dramatically underdescribed, and at least one is dramatically overdescribed. Still other languages are simultaneously overdescribed and underdescribed. Welsh pertains to the third category.