From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Wed Feb 21 15:03:22 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 21 Feb 2001 23:03:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 25099 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2001 22:51:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 21 Feb 2001 22:51:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta2 with SMTP; 21 Feb 2001 22:51:13 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id RAA05799 for lojban@onelist.com; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:57:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:57:24 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Diminuitives? Message-ID: <20010221175723.A5703@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@onelist.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell I seem to vaguely remember noticing a word to indicate that another word(s) was intended as a pet name or dimminuitive (i.e. "mommy" rather than "mother"). Does this actually exist, or did I just make it up? If it does exist, where is it in the book? -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Information wants to be free. Too bad most of it is crap. --RLP