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Re: NATLANG: Chinese parts of speech (or lack thereof)

From:Adam Walker <carrajena@...>
Date:Sunday, August 15, 2004, 22:58
--- John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:

> Joe scripsit: > > > In the UK, at least, that's 'slobber' or > 'dribble'. I think you may > > have the latter. But yeah, when expelled, it's > spit. And Saliva can be > > used for all of them, if you want to sound > pretentious. > > I suspect Adam's "slabber" (which I've never seen) > is a typo for > "slobber" (/A/ and /O/ are probably are merged in > his dialect). >
Just so on both counts and the two are most likely connected as you imply.
> I have all of the terms above plus "drool". All > except "saliva" are > both nouns and verbs. >
So can you, in your 'lect use "snot" as a verb. Adam ===== Idavi avins patorrechi djinerachunis djul Avramu ad ul Davidu ed avins patorrechi djinerachunis djil deporrachuni in al Baviluña ad ul Cristu. Machu 1:17

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