Re: Hressa-Hlab (was: Re: Martian conlangs?)
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 7, 2003, 21:08 |
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H. S. Teoh scripsit:
> *cringe* Shouldn't that be "Hellenically correct form"? "Greekly" just
> sounds... *wrong*. :-)
Of course. But somehow "Greekly correct" alludes to "politically correct"
better: use barbarism to translate barbarism.
(Remember, the phrase "politically correct" started out as a leftist joke.)
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