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From: petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich)
Subject: Re: "Classifiers" in Chinese
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Keywords: Chinese, language, classifiers
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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 01:17:39 GMT
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In article <539jml$rkm@voyager.iii.org.tw>,
 <dski@cameonet.cameo.com.tw> wrote:
>Miguel Carrasquer Vidal (mcv@pi.net) wrote --
>
>>                        ....In a language like Chinese, the classifiers
>> are rigidly grammaticalized now (they're no fun anymore), but maybe a
>> lot of fun was had by all in a previous stage of the langauge, before
>> the "best" classifiers were "frozen".

>Never underestimate human ingenuity and capacity for humor. Some college
>students I knew about a dozen years ago in Taipei used "classifiers" in
>ways that still bring a smile to my lips.

	Any examples?

	Or would one need to have a good knowledge of Chinese to 
appreciate them?

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