Re: mang(w)a (was: Grie Ka #2)

On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 13:28:14 -0800 Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>
writes:
> > Hiroshi Kato wrote:
> > > (In traditional orthography manga is written as 'mangwa')
> Nik Taylor wrote:
> > Eh?  How would one write _gwa_ in kana?
> GU with small WA?
> this reminds me of
> http://www.xenafan.com/fiction/content/forant.html
> which i hope you've all read
> --
> Anton Sherwood  --  http://www.ogre.nu/
-

That's hilarious!  ROTFLMAOSHIH as czHANg says!  (even though i don't
know what SHIH stands for) :-D  I'm going to send the URL to the listserv
of all the linguistics majors in my college!

Although i'm not sure if i understood it correctly... in the part where
Gabrielle and Xena are talking about the word "chakram", do they mean
that it's pronounced [tSakram] in Sanskrit and [xakram] in Greek?  Is
that supposed to be a borrowing, or cognates, or what?


-Stephen (Steg)
 "It looks to me like two gammas ____ing!"
     ~ random soldier in the fanfic praised above

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