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Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Thursday, September 5, 2002, 15:02
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 00:35:49 -0400 Roger Mills <romilly@...> writes:
> These are, alas, all alive and well in Am.Engl. The only one I find > at all > amusing is _momento_; somday there will be a collection of photos on > my > website, to be called "Precious Momentos".....don't fail to miss > it!!
- I don't get it... what's amusing about the word "momento"?
> Gaining ground, though not foreign, "whole nother"
- Actually, because of "a whole nother", Rokbeigalmki has two separate words for the idea of "another": |yu| = "an other" = an additional, but different, object. |twan| = "a nother" = an additional object of the same type. -Stephen (Steg) "Dime ladino d'ande venes ke te kero konoser Dime si futuro tenes Yo te vo a defender." ~ de un artikolo en el listserv Ladinokomunita