query: sarcastic antonymic nicknames

Mike Morgan mwmosaka at GMAIL.COM
Wed Nov 25 12:50:12 UTC 2009


Well, a close friend in Mumbai/Bombay, a Maratha Brahmin woman with
VERY dark skin, is named Shweta .. which means "white" ...


mike || U C > || мика  || माईक || マイク || ሚካኤል
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           (( Michael W Morgan, PhD ))
       Assistant Professor in Linguistics
Ethiopian Sign Language & Deaf Studies Program
       Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia)
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Yo afaan wali galle malee, diina keenya il en manque.



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