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Re: [romconlang] -able

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 14:57
On 15.4.2008 Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Probably has a lot to do with the fact that "spade" just > doesn't exist IML outside of cards - certainly not as a name for the > tool, which has always been a "shovel" (despite the differences that > exist between the referents of those two words when used "properly").
Well, to me _spade_ is a homograph though not a homophone with its Swedish translation [^spQ:d@\], so it tends to stick in memory. FWIW Swedish kids are likely to use _spade_ for what properly is a _skyffel_ ['Xyff@\l]. No racial overtones intended, of course! /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "C'est en vain que nos Josués littéraires crient à la langue de s'arrêter; les langues ni le soleil ne s'arrêtent plus. Le jour où elles se *fixent*, c'est qu'elles meurent." (Victor Hugo)