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----- Original Message -----
From: Pierre Abbat <phma@oltronics.net>
Sent: Tuesday, 05 September 2000 10:10


<me makem snip bilong puta paper>

> "Pisin" also happens to mean "bird", so several PNG languages call it by
their
> phrase for "bird language", so maybe we should call it "cpiban"?

I thought "Pidgin" was a carry-over of the English word "Business", which
also means "work" or "employment".

That would then be "gunban" ... which I'm sure the Lojbanian Libertarian
Party would frown upon.

zo'o, y'all

--d