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Re: fuzzy blue monkeys(was Re: .sig)

From:Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 13, 2001, 3:58
Ar 00:44 13/11/01 +0000, bhac Dan Jones le scríobh chugam:

>Just to chip in, (and temporarily delurk), here's the phrase in Carashan: > >mêndos êzoros faffalos > >mêndo : monkey, from Shanstanya maindo (< Sanskrit "mainda") >êzoro : blue, from Aredos adoros >faffalo : fuzzy, from an unknown source (I just liked the word falafel- it >seems fuzzy)
In Irish: Moncaithe gorma clúmhacha moncaí-PL. gorm-PL. clúmhach-PL. monkey-PL. blue-PL. fuzzy-PL. And in Erëtas... Hlässöbonakkäa Jonäjë Hlässö-monakkä-a Jonäje-ë blueness-monkey-PL. fuzziness-ADJ. K. -- Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...> http://homepage.eircom.net/~kmgaughan/ I can decide what I give / But it's not up to me / What I get given -=Bjork=-