Re: 80th lexicon entry
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 16, 2001, 22:55 |
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 02:52:42PM -0400, Steg Belsky wrote:
> [snip]
> > And then there's the 'filler' word _yeli_ that i mentioned in the "verbal
> > diarrhea" thread, which means "so", "then", "therefore"... but its exact
> > use is still sort of ambiguous in my mind... something like:
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Interesting! Does that perchance have any link to Serbian "jel", "je li",
meaning, "isn't it?" and various other things. It is also a piece of
verbal faeces.