Re: Pejorative words (was: Introducing myself, and several questions)

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:17:15 -0500, Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
wrote:
>
> On Feb 17, 2005, at 2:26 PM, Roger Mills wrote:
>> My little secret-- lately I've been adapting some Yiddish slang terms
>> into Kash slang, but with phonological distortions, of course. They
>> haven't made it online yet, however.
>> çamak(a) /Sa'mak(a)/-- penis, erection (schmuck)
>> takas-- butt, rear end, ass (tuckas)
>> peçukas-- crazy, silly, ridiculous (meshugas); pepecuci-- such a person
>> nundik-- a boring, irritating person (noodnik)
>> In genl. I'm viewing them as loans from Gwr languages........
>> Would anyone consider these offensive?
I should borrow some Yiddish words into 'Yemls, too.

> Only if by "offensive" you mean 'wow that's so cool!  i love it!'  ;-) .
> What you wrote as |tuckas| sounds more like /'tUx@s/, btw, with a /x/.
> /m@'SUg@/ = crazy
> /mISI'gas/ = craziness, mess, crap (in the non-excretory sense)
>
>> Still working on çelep (schlep)-- something like 'drag s.t. heavy;
>> (fig.)
>> carry around an unwanted or undeserved burden ~bad reputation etc.'
>> Other recent additions:
>> calupa /tSa'lupa/ --a great big mess; total disorder
>> kahuna-- young of the kawu /kaU)/, a food animal......
>> :-))))))
>
> Sounds great :) .
> So when Kash speak about "the big kahuna", they mean something somewhat
> different... :P
>
>
>-Stephen (Steg)
>  "i am the terror that flaps in the night."
>   (oh no wait... that's darkwing duck!)
Steg, while we're on the topic of potentially offensive conwords ....
When the discussion of mythical beings (in conlangs) came up, I didn't have
anything to contribute. Yesterday, however, your "gabwe" came to mind. I
never remember how it's supposed to be pronounced, so I think ["ga.bwe]
when I see it. If borrowed into 'Yemls, it would become ["gO.bwE:] (written
{AbE}), which is awkward. Then I thought of metathesis: gawbe. The nearest
adaptation would be ["g_j&O.bE] (written {GOP}). What do you (and Roger and
others for that matter) think?

Jeff

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