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Re: Weekly vocab revival?

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Sunday, August 20, 2006, 19:58
Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Dear fellow conlangers! > > Recently, I was thinking of reviving the weekly vocab. And the first > step of continuation is, as we all know from TV, the rerun. > > So I was thinking of posting automatically every week one of the old > weekly vocabs that currently sleep in the archives. It is currently > fodder for more than half a year of work, I think (there are > 30 > posts IIRC).
Good idea.
> > Whenever someone comes up with a new set of words, I will happily > enqueue it into the automatical weekly posting mechanism...
OK!! Here are 10 words, and some suggested sentences, culled from my Kash to-do list: 1. committee 2. bell-tower (or just _tower_) The committee has(have) decided to erect a (bell-)tower. 3. exactly It will be exactly 73 metres [or suitable equivalent] tall. 4. crane/derrick 5. bell(s) They will need a crane to lift the bell(s) into place. 6. net (for fishing) The fishermen have lost their nets. 7. napkin The [ethnic slur of your choice] people eat with their fingers and do not use napkins. 8. rummage around/poke around in with the finger They just rummage around in the pot with their fingers 9. bankrupt 10. toothpaste/toothpowder/dentifrice (or appropriate material) The king is bankrupt. He can't even afford to buy toothpaste. ;-))))))

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