Re: Ungrammaticalization?

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!



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