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Re: status of ka (was Re: [lojban] x3 of du'



On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:39:16PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> >You don't have children, do you?
> 
> "No, only one a year."  Actually, I have one (bidialectal).
> 
> >Note that "That movie is _the_ bomb" is a linguistic reversal slang
> 
> I've only ever seen this in print in Brit contexts.

It's completely standard where I live.  It was also standard in Toronto.

-Robin, in northern California.

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