Fwd: question

[Ken Brewer]

TWO TERMS OF ENDEARMENT FROM IRSH:

1) A CHUISLE MO CHROI: THE PULSE OF MY HEART
2) A LAO GHIL: BRIGHT CALF!! (honestly)

--- Monica Macaulay <mmacaula at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU>
wrote:
> Forgive me for using FLING for this question, but I
> thought this group
> would probably have some good answers to the
> following question:
>
> >> I have a question for you two as linguists.  I'm
> writing a kind of quirky,
> >> humorous piece for Valentine's Day called "Terms
> of Endearment."  It
> >>looks at
> >> the terms that different societies use as
> endearments (so far, US, UK,
> >>France
> >> and Spain).
> [..]
> >> And--more importantly--can you come up with some
> endearments for me from
> >> languages you know?  I would need the original
> word/phrase plus an
> >>absolutely
> >> literal translation into English (eg "mon
> chou"="my cabbage").
> >> Any info gratefully received...
>
>
> So if anybody knows of anything that I could pass
> along to my friend, let
> me know.
>
> - Monica
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Monica Macaulay
> Chair, Department of Linguistics
> University of Wisconsin
> 1168 Van Hise
> 1220 Linden Drive
> Madison, WI  53706
>
> email:  mmacaula at facstaff.wisc.edu
> phone:  (608) 262-2292
> web:  http://ling.wisc.edu/~macaulay/monica.html
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
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