Re: Varon
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 21, 2002, 5:03 |
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Daniel Andreasson wrote:
>Roger Mills wrote:
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>> Kash has _similar_ constructions, e.g.
>> punani, atelni ket 'his/the house has six rooms'
> ^^^^^^
>
>"Punani"? LOL! I've never seen one of these in a
>conlang. It's pretty funny in Swedish that _kiss_
>means 'pee', _buys_ sounds just like Sw. _bajs_,
>'poop, shit' and we all had a blast when the we
>got news of the new car "Nissan Fitta" here in
>Sweden. _Fitta_ is a *very* rude word for the female
>genital, much like... yes that's right... "punani". :)
Oh dear :-( Puna is one of my most-used words in examples (it saves hunting
in the dictionary for something more interesting). I don't think I know a
single word of Swedish.... well, now I do.
Until I changed /S/ from "sh" to "ç", several Kash compounds had "-shit", a
reduced form of çindi 'to speak'. Ah well, these things happen.
IIRC, I recently spotted "chalupa" [in real life, a Taco Bell delicacy] in
someone's conlang.
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