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From: hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu (H. M. Hubey)
Subject: Re: Esperanto as a stepping stone?
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iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski) writes:


>Oddly, it has never occurred to me to pronounce it as [bok'luk]
>(Bulgarian _bokluk_ `garbage').  :-)

Turkish, bok=shit. The _luk_ suffix makes it something like
"for ___"


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Regards, Mark

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