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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 15 November 2007 - Volume 01
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span>
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">
Kevin & Cheryl Caldwell</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net">kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span>
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Morphology"
2007.11.13 (01) [E]<br><br></span><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;"> thought Elizabeth I was affectionately referred to as
Bess. The British Long Land Pattern musket was commonly referred to as Brown
Bess (one theory is that this was derived from the German phrase 'braun buss'
meaning 'brown gun').</span></font>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">And if you think English names get
stretched when diminutivized, until they are nearly unrecognizable, just look
at what Russians do. They even make diminutives of the dimunitives!
Aleksandr>Aleksasha>Sasha>Sashka>Sashen'ka or
Aleksandr>Alekshura> Shura>Shurka>Shuren'ka.</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Kevin "Don't you dare call me Kevs" Caldwell</span></font></p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">
<span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Maria Elsie Zinsser</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:ezinsser@icon.co.za">ezinsser@icon.co.za</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Morphology"
2007.11.14 (03) [E]<br><br>
</span><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2">Hi Ron,<br><br>Why not cutify / cutification / cutificator rather than cutesify/cutesification/cutesificator? <br>The longer and more complex a lexical string is, the less it is going to be used.
<br><br>Cheerio, <br>Elsie Zinsser<br><br>>The
verb "cutesify" has the main stress on the first syllable,
"cutesification" on the fourth, and "cutesificator" on the the second.
Everyone like? Should be sent straight to the <i>OED</i> people.<br><br>----------<br><br></font><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888">
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Morphology<br><br>Kevin, I think you're right about Bessy. It's interesting, too: supposedly Beth > Beths > Bess > Bessy.
<br><br>Else, I was just kidding about those terms. Sorry I didn't make that clearer.<br><br>Seriously, though, if there isn't a fancy-shmancy term for "endearing" in linguistics (and I'm not aware of any), I would suggest something like "affectative" with subcategories like "diminutive affectative" (or "affectative diminutive"), "jocular affectative."
<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br></span></font></font>
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