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But I do find pinmo used as a word in many web pages....I doubt they are
all typos. I can't tell you what the languages are or what it means.
There are many people on this list who are better linguists than I so I will
defer to them. Is pinmo a word?
****************************** Larry Roux Syracuse University lroux@xxxxxxx ******************************* >>> bernd.neuner@xxxxxx 06/10/03 10:01AM >>> I think I located the source of the pinmo-forget correspondence: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Ceqdict.html It is, however, neither related to Czech nor German. To me, it seems that the owner of the page ("Ceqli") just created his own little language. He took the word for "remember" from Russian ("pomni") and just permutated the letters in order to express opposition. Other examples are: sali - sila (arrive - leave, derived from Spanish salir) tjer - trej (mild - much, derived from Frech "tres"=very) I'd rather not bank too heavily on this one :-) Best regards, Bernd ____________________________________________________________________________ Jetzt bei WEB.DE FreeMail anmelden = 1qm Regenwald schuetzen! Helfen Sie mit! Nutzen Sie den Serien-Testsieger. http://user.web.de/Regenwald ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying: unsubscribe vms-list |