SC - spelling please
Elaine Koogler
ekoogler at chesapeake.net
Thu Feb 8 19:28:49 PST 2001
However, the Germans aren't the only ones who do this. The Mandarin Chinese
word for Airport is literally "flying machine field". And a bus is "public
people wagon"!
Kiri
Stefan li Rous wrote:
> Pyro said:
> > We _must_ butcher other languages and consume them,
> > how else shall we grow (new words)?
> > (Insert smiling here!)
>
> Well, we could follow the German example and just paste words
> together until the resulting word is too long to be manageable. :-)
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> THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
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