The Virgin Mary's Peas: results, finally
Jean-Joseph Cote
jjcote at juno.com
Mon Jul 25 11:06:47 EDT 2005
> Elliott: But why would English need a word for this place? If
> it had been 'southern Afghanistan', now, or 'southern Kenya',
> sure. But Albania?"
Because I wanted to pick a language that I knew nothing about, so that I
wouldn't have to worry about the word roots looking plausible. What's
Albanian related to? I have no idea. But I myself wondered the same
thing, why would there be an English name for the place? Italian, Greek,
or Serbo-Croatian would be likely, but would there be Brits wandering
around there, butchering the language? And to make it even more
incongruous, when I pictured this in my head, the speaker had a strong
Australian accent.
> Pierre: "'Me' means 'with'; 'pa' means 'without'."
Sheesh, this is a tough crowd.
Jean-Joseph
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