Re: me and my languages

Interestingly, and perhaps obviously,
caka, pronounced /tSak@/ in Teonaht,
means "shit."  !!   Odd dumb and yucky
things.

cakkondrop is how you'd spell your word
in T, with the double k indicating stress on
that syllable.  The pun on shit would be
implicit, and it would refer to a person who
is DELIBERATELY ignorant or obtuse
(recollecting a prior discussion we had about
the word "ignorant/ignore").  In other words,
a person who pretends not to understand you
in order to passively thwart your argument,
or who pretends not to understand a situation
in order not to become involved.

Woo!

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net


----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Mills <romilly@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: me and my languages


> Sally Caves wrote:
>
>
> >"Cakendrop."  That's priceless.  Can I adopt it as
> >a foreign word in Teonaht?
>
> By all means.  But note, it's _cakondrop_ [tSa'kondrop]
>
> >Does it have an etymology?
>
> Accidental (caka-) form of kondrop 'to be obtuse, dense, unwilling or
unable
> to understand s.t.'   So cakondrop means about the same, but is more
> emphatic and pejorative.  Now that I check the dictionary, it could be (ex
> post facto) an intensified form of _hondo_ 'stupid', **nasalization +
> xo-r-ndo + phonaesthetic /-p/, which occurs frequently on items
representing
> odd, dumb, or yucky things.
>