Re: Láadan
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 16, 2002, 19:53 |
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Lu=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=EDs?= Henrique scripsit:
> Is there a "to menopause" verb in English? (There is not such verb in
> Portuguese... menopausar?! ugh!)
No. It's "to undergo menopause" in technical language (now also used
popularly) and traditionally "to go through the change [of life]".
> >d=F3lhorado to dominate with evil intent
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> Doesn't "domination" already imply an evil intent?
Usually, but not invariably. One may dominate with commercial or
even loving intent.
> In Portuguese (and I suppose in Castillian and Italian as well), we have a
> grammatical resource to express emotions that, in my opinion, easily beats
> L=E1adan for simplicity and usefulness. It is the use of diminutives and
> aumentatives:
Indeed. I have always loved the Spanish word "novelón": "long, boring novel".
The need to lexicalize such a concept is just incredible.
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