[Lexicog] happy-go-lucky

[Simon Wickham-Smith]

hi there -

I decided to look at various Tibetan translations of "happy-go-lucky"  
and discovered but one, namely snang ba skyid po - which is  
interesting because it describes a person whose appearance (snang ba)  
is happy (skyid po).  This of course could be a retrospective  
translation by the English lexicographers, or else it could  
(conceivably) be a neologism:  there's no historical etymological  
record.  Nonetheless, it gives another perspective.

Re, like, the idea of "go" meaning "say", could anyone out there  
confirm that one can use aller in French for to say - ie <et il va,  
"je vais chez moi">.  It's not possible I think in German (er geht,  
"ich gehe nach Hause"?).

Si
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