From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Aug 23 10:02:30 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 23 Aug 2001 17:02:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 79981 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2001 16:51:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 23 Aug 2001 16:51:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta1 with SMTP; 23 Aug 2001 16:51:45 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15ZxhA-0007UA-00; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:51:04 -0700 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:51:04 -0700 To: John Cowan Cc: John Cowan , Nick NICHOLAS , lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: status of ka (was Re: [lojban] x3 of du' Message-ID: <20010823095104.F31850@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: John Cowan , John Cowan , Nick NICHOLAS , lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <20010823091624.B31850@digitalkingdom.org> <3B8531B4.60609@reutershealth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B8531B4.60609@reutershealth.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i From: Robin Lee Powell 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. -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/