I'm amazed that anyone would bother wading through all that; especially you who should be sleeping at such time you posted - get ye no rest at all?
All this was triggered, incidentally, by Nalora's commentary on Southern words and their usage. I don't have any background like that, but it recalled fond memories of learning Tok Pisin - which any English speaker can fall into quickly.
Ah, I just noticed that my betel nut reference was from a rather biased site - here is another link by someone equally offbeat but perhaps a bit more realistic about it.
He describes copious, orgasmic drooling - I shudder with disgust just thinking about that but I fear he's accurate. I cannot say; I'm a betel-nut virgin myself.
Um, dude, why would I be sleeping at 7:30 in the morning? LOL. Check out the comment time *that* is when I read it.
And it was a fasinating read. I've been reading your LJ since you started but it is so self contained that I rarely commented. Nal and TJ got me started on the commenting. 'wave
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All this was triggered, incidentally, by Nalora's commentary on Southern words and their usage. I don't have any background like that, but it recalled fond memories of learning Tok Pisin - which any English speaker can fall into quickly.
Ah, I just noticed that my betel nut reference was from a rather biased site - here is another link by someone equally offbeat but perhaps a bit more realistic about it.
http://www.epistola.com/sfowler/scholar/scholar-betel.html
He describes copious, orgasmic drooling - I shudder with disgust just thinking about that but I fear he's accurate. I cannot say; I'm a betel-nut virgin myself.
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Check out the comment time *that* is when I read it.
And it was a fasinating read. I've been reading your LJ since you started but it is so self contained that I rarely commented. Nal and TJ got me started on the commenting. 'wave
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