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But back for a second to "kip", the real given word last week. I came across this passage in a book I'm just reading: "Homo Ludens" (Men The Player) by Johan Huizinga.
Huizinga was a philologist who uses language and the history of language to support his ideas.
I first give the quote from his lecture: ( from a passage about the Algonkin languages, Blackfoot language)Quote:"Remarkable is the capacity to give to a verbum the connotation of - 'not really meant', 'just kidding' - by adding a prefix ' kip ' which litterally means : just for a second/a moment.
Example:
ániu - he says.
kípaniu - he says just for fun; not seriously. "
“Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.”
Huizinga's idea is that the property play, game (present both in the animal and human kingdom) is the property from which all our forms of culture: music, art, religions, law, state - and social organisation were born.
For those really interested I give the wiki-article.
Homo Ludens
N.B. the book is really interesting and entertaining.
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