Bye-bye

[awebster@siu.edu]

Rudy Troike's post reminded me of the native speaker of Wuhan 
(a dialect of Mandarin) I had working for my linguistic 
fieldmethods class this spring. When we elicited the word for 
goodbye, she gave the standard zia jian, but then added that 
all the young speakers (she herself was young), said "bye-bye." 
And it was the reduplicated form, not just "bye" as I would 
say. best, akw

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>Date: 3-jun-2008 02:19:30 -0500
>From: "Rudy Troike" <rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU>
>Reply-To: "Indigenous Languages and Technology" 
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>To: <ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
>Subject: [ILAT] Bye-bye
>
>Recently I was watching a program on Chinese, and was amused 
to hear two
>characters parting company say "Bye-bye" -- a new Chinese 
expression!
>
>   Rudy
>
>
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Anthony K. Webster, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology &
Native American Studies Minor
Southern Illinois University
Mail Code 4502
Carbondale, IL 62901-4502
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