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On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 02:22:15PM -0400, Craig Daniel wrote:
> In general I think having a sneeze ritual at all may be a touch on
> the malgli side, since all of them involve showing a concern for
> the person's well-being that is expressed out of societal
> obligation rather than a genuine fear that their sneeze indicates
> a major health problem.
> 
> But when the goal is to have something to say to expose a baby to
> lots of language, you respond to the sneeze, as you respond to
> everything else the baby does. I like "senci" for that purpose.

Whether or not it's malrarbau, I think your points are pretty good.
Thanks.

Also, {senci} is a pretty excellent onomaetopoaeia (sp?; I just
kinda threw in vowels there), so it's fun for that purpose.  :)

-Robin

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