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<p class="MsoNormal">A personal favourite (if you understand Thai): “What are you long-chim-doo-ing?”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(The Thai expression “long chim doo” means to taste something.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Ietf-languages [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>John Cowan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 6, 2017 12:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> lucp@skopos.be<br>
<b>Cc:</b> ietflang IETF Languages Discussion <ietf-languages@iana.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Spanglish<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 4:34 AM, Luc Pardon <<a href="mailto:lucp@skopos.be" target="_blank">lucp@skopos.be</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Next, people who think fine-grained tagging serves no purpose may<br>
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Well, yes. It's the "words of indeterminate language" that are the problem.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In the sentence "Porque were you hablaing with ese señorita?", the matrix<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">language is English and there are Spanish loan-words in it, but "hablaing"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">is neither English nor Spanish, but a Spanish root with an English grammatical<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ending. Marking it up as either en or es would be wrong.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-- <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John Cowan <a href="http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan">http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan</a> <a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Babies are born as a result of the mating between men and women,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">and most men and women enjoy mating.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> --Isaac Asimov in Earth: Our Crowded Spaceship<o:p></o:p></p>
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