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Oh, I'm certainly not laughing at the actuality of being a fatherless, motherless orphan, please do understand, but I was somehow delighted to read this cleverness of combining these two specific Indonesian words, Bingley.
Haven't you mentioned this before? Reading it this morning rang a little Indonesian bell at the back of my head. Maybe it was some other word that followed the same track, but I don't think so.
In any case, it's good to be reminded of those times that other languages quite outdo English, we with our enormous vocabulary. It keeps us humble! And here the Indonesian language has quite outdone us in specificity and efficiency. They have one word for fatherless orphan, one word for motherless orphan, and only two words for our fatherless, motherless orphan unless, of course, we say something like 'orphan outright.'
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted orphan wwh 11/23/03 05:56 PM Re: orphan Wordwind 01/25/04 03:36 PM Re: orphan Bingley 01/26/04 05:53 AM Re: orphan Wordwind 01/26/04 12:13 PM
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