Re: CHAT: various infotaining natlang tidbits

Roger Mills wrote:
> Malay also distinguishes head-hair (rambut) from body-hair (bulu-- which is
> also the word for feather.  Always amused me, but I think it's fairly
> common)
I think that a distinction between head-hair and body-hair is quite
sensible, and I often wish English had that distinction.  Actually, a
threefold distinction between head-hair, facial-hair, and body-hair
would make sense to me.

--
"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men
believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of
the city of God!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Glassín wafilái pigasyúv táv pifyániivav nadusakyáavav sussyáiyatantu
wawailáv ku suslawayástantu ku usfunufilpyasváditanva wafpatilikániv
wafluwáiv suttakíi wakinakatáli tiDikáufli!" - nLáf mÁldu nÍmasun
ICQ: 18656696
AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor