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

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Sunday, August 15, 2004, 22:49
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). I have all of the terms above plus "drool". All except "saliva" are both nouns and verbs. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin

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Adam Walker <carrajena@...>