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

To: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
Subject: Re: status of ka (was Re: [lojban] x3 of du'
From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:39:16 -0400
Cc: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, Nick NICHOLAS <nicholas@uci.edu>, lojban@yahoogroups.com
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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.

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