Re: Ungrammaticalization?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 16, 1999, 20:35 |
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Steg Belsky wrote:
> Oh yeah, and i pronounce "computer" as ['kamp@t@r]
I have ['kAmpjutr=] and ['pjutr=]
> They also liked using the adjectives "Russian", "Carpathian", and
> "Communist/Commie". They referred to their class president as the Czar.
Interesting. My brother and I like to use "commie" as a joking term for
anything not American, as in "those Commie Canucks" :-) My brother just
loves to use "(tree-huggin') hippie crap" as a jocular insult, for
anything, especially in the phrase "It's all a bunch of tree-huggin'
hippie crap" (yes, he did take that from Cartman on South Park)
--
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speke no Frenshe ... And then at last a nother sayd that he woulde haue
hadde eyren: then the goode wyf sayd that she vnderstood hym wel." --
William Caxton
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