BTW, Chinese does this to an extent most English people or even Lojbanists would find astounding. One of my Chinese teachers at university unconsciously transferred this to English and referredd to the external examiner as the "exterminator".
-- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org