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>Hello.  I recall a few months back reading a message where someone
>obliquely referred to wordplay in nahuatl-  I took this to mean that
>words or their components may ostensibly refer to one thing, but
>are intentionally used in an environment where an additional meaning is
>made immanent.  A sort of double-entendre convention, I guess, only with
>the second meaning being semantically complementary to the first.
>         I wanted to know if anyone has an understanding of the nature of
>this device, perhaps examples of its use, or any opinions whatsoever about
>dual lexical meaning in Nahuatl.  Thanks-  Joanna Sanchez
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