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)
"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. "
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.
