Re: OT Marx Brothers (was Re: Another Introduction)
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 15, 2003, 15:35 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: OT Marx Brothers (was Re: Another Introduction)
> 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 ;))) .
Well, 'bio' means 'life' and 'scoop'=scope, from 'skopein', to look at. So,
'looking at life' ;-) Reasonable, to me...