Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute

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!!
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I don't get it... what's amusing about the word "momento"?

> Gaining ground, though not foreign, "whole nother"
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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."
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