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Re: Keeping Track of Ambiguity in your Conlang?

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Monday, September 2, 2002, 15:50
bnathyuw wrote:


> --- Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote: >
(snip)
>> bottle, to...
....
>> as verbs these generally mean 'put s.t. into NOUN' >well, in london ( and much of england i believe ) the >primary meaning of 'bottle' is 'hit someone over the >head with a bottle' > >as in > >[?Au 'bo?Uu j3u] 'i'll bottle you' ( heard at 23:15 >outside the pub )
Ah, an interesting extension into the other category, like "water-- to water"-- "apply NOUN to s.t." :-)