Re: ,Language' in language name?
| From: | David Starner <starner@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 28, 2001, 17:09 |
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 08:21:56AM -0500, Muke Tever wrote:
> But as a productive *noun*forming suffix I think -ese pretty clearly does mean
> "language" or "manner of speech". Say "X-ese is a ____"...
It's also a term for ethnicity, though - Japanese, Chinese, Genoese,
Siamese.
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