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Re: Con-Alphabets & Real Languages

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Sunday, December 30, 2001, 9:31
Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> The sole Kash speaker on Earth at the moment has decided to adapt > Spanish words for concepts lacking in his language, so /pero/ 'dog', > /keso/ 'cheese', /tiyos/ 'God' etc. etc. but even Spanish phonology > sometimes runs afoul of Kash rules.
When you borrow it, do you give it some new nuance of meaning? In Texan English, the word "queso" /keso/ means "[chile con] queso" i.e., the melted cheese and vegetable dip that is a normal appetizer when you go out to eat (even at many non-TexMex restaurants). ===================================================================== Thomas Wier <trwier@...> <http://home.uchicago.edu/~trwier> "...koruphàs hetéras hetére:isi prosápto:n / Dept. of Linguistics mú:tho:n mè: teléein atrapòn mían..." University of Chicago "To join together diverse peaks of thought / 1010 E. 59th Street and not complete one road that has no turn" Chicago, IL 60637 Empedocles, _On Nature_, on speculative thinkers