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Re: OT Marx Brothers (was Re: Another Introduction)

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, May 15, 2003, 11:17
En réponse à Roger Mills :

> > >An elderly lady of my acquaintance in Florida used to say "show"-- "Let's go >to a show this afternoon". Indonesian, FWIW, uses a positively antique >term-- bioskop [bi'oskop]
Except that Indonesian probably borrowed it from Dutch, which has "bioscoop" as a current word (always wondered about its etymology. Seems like such a strange word...). So nothing antique in it ;))) . Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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