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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: Nova
Message-ID: <D27w83.13A@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 01:31:14 GMT
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In article <3el2opINN86t@SUNED.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU> horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) writes:
>I spy a newbie.
>
>In article <Pine.A32.3.91.950106200207.88725D-100000@isisa.oit.unc.edu>, Robert Howren <howren@email.unc.edu> writes:
><These "obvious cognates" are virtual caricatures of random phonetic 
><similarities between languages.
>
>And they were intended as such.

There was a time when one could consider oneself an established netter
after getting oneself flamed for the first time.  Apparently things
have changed, and now the initiation rite includes being trolled.
But you're doing it too well, Scott.  :-)


In article <3esl48$l04@badger.3do.com> markn@3do.com (Mark Nudelman) writes:
>In article <D1y01r.6yG@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>,
>Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>>nuq qellaH _'a'na'_, tlhIngon Hol Sovwi'pu'?
                             *

That should be _tlhIngan_, of course.  My humblest apologies.
(Or, in Klingon, _chonoDqangchugh qaHoH jay'_.  :-))

To answer my own question, _-'a'na'_ is a complex nominal suffix
meaning `undoubtedly a great ...'.  Makes one wonder.

>Well, how about <'ang'a'> = "Does he/she show (it)?"
>The relevance to *ana = "hole, womb" is left to the reader's imagination.

That might do as well.  Jacques, qu'en dis-tu?

-- 
`Release Jesus wi this mob hangin aroon?  Nae chance!'  (The Glasgow Gospel)
Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu)
* Centre for Cognitive Science,  2 Buccleuch Place,   Edinburgh EH8 9LW,  UK
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