Re: CHAT: various infotaining natlang tidbits

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> I did think of that. But telling us that it's an English-lexifier
> language and then giving examples with words from Portuguese and local
> languages --- I think that's cheating.
:-)  Not all words have to be from English to be called
"English-lexified", you know.  :-)

> Anyway, TP save probably has two syllables, so it can't be from
> English save. I should have spotted that.
But it is from the same source as our "savvy".

> Obviously, yes. But as I explicitly wrote and you lot all carefully
> deleted, I was guessing at the original English, not translating.
Ah, you're use of brackets, tho, made it look like you were
translating.  My apologies.

> See comment above about cheating.
Excuses, excuses.  :-)

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