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Re: Primary Interjections - Universals?

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Sunday, April 7, 2002, 16:37
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 02:53:02 GMT Gustavo Eulalio <guga@...>
writes:
> Portuguese has POXA (/poSa/) for surprise, which isn´t used > as > any other part of speech, so I believe it falls under your > definition of > interjection. EITA (/ejta/) is also used.
> By the way, hello all. I´ve been away for some months now > and am finally back! > -- > Gustavo Eulalio <guga@...>
- Hey! Welcome back! I was actually wishing that you'd be back already a few weeks ago. I started learning some capoeira, and the names of various moves have been confusing me; i can't figure out the system of Portuguese orthography and Brazilian-Portuguese pronounciation! -Stephen (Steg) "az i ez amzii-dachlus sha'ilmal-a..." (y will change the world..."