Re: Ungrammaticalization?
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 18, 1999, 23:34 |
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On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:54:26 -0500 Ed Heil <edheil@...> writes:
>Steg Belsky wrote:
>> Syrians have a huge amount of these kind of words, idioms, etc.
>It's
>> practically a different dialect.
>[...]
>> floos = money (noun), bribe (verb)
>Aha! The origin of "Flooz", which is a form of virtual cash/gift
>certificate administrated at www.flooz.com, is revealed!
>Ed Heil ------------------------------- edheil@postmark.net
>"Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything
> that's even _remotely_ true!" -- Homer Simpson
Well, it depends if the {z} in "Flooz" is like in "dogz" or like in
"catz" (because of the actual pronounciation or just to 'look cool')- the
Syrian word "floos" is pronounced with a [s], not a [z]. Maybe it should
be written "flooss" or "floose".
-Stephen (Steg)
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