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Re: English syllable structure (was, for some reason: Re: Llirine: How to creat a language)

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Saturday, December 8, 2001, 19:18
Maarten wrote:


>Cheng Zhong Su wrote: > >> And in some times English can't >> define a word's meaning:'She went to bank.' what is >> the meaning of 'bank'? > >Well, it sound like a verb to me here.... sounds rather forceful too. I >think "to bank" means "to hit your hit against the wall for an extended >period of time, after having given up to explain to a bad-english-speaking >chinese guy that he is pleading his case on the wrong list". Is that
getting
>close?
Under the circumstances, yes. In my first reading of the original msg., I thought "poor Tristan" had written that, and that it could mean "She went to [do her banking]", a leeetle odd but still comparable to "She went to shop". But now it's clear, Tristan is blameless.

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Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>