Re: Once upon a time
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, July 24, 2001, 6:49 |
D Tse wrote:
>
> I haven't written any stories for my conworld yet (shock! horror!) but as
> for natlangs, Japanese uses "mukashi-mukashi", literally "old-old", with
> the implication of "very old, a long time ago".
Some Meso-American language I read about used something like "This is
what happened to a ..." to start stories.
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