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Re: "......I have a banana in my ear" (was: Re: Weekly Vocab 6: to know)

From:Pavel Iosad <edricson@...>
Date:Thursday, May 15, 2003, 19:32
Hello,

> tolkien's quenya also has this distinction:
[...]
> lá lertan <swim>: i can't swim (what exactly would this mean?)
Umm, 'I can't swim because I've been captured by pirates and tied to the mast' ? Pavel -- Pavel Iosad pavel_iosad@mail.ru Is mall a mharcaicheas am fear a bheachdaicheas --Scottish proverb