What to call 2010

[Peterson, Mark Allen Dr.]

There's an on-line Portuguese video news service called Zoio TV 
http://www.zoiotv.com.br/
This must be their big year!
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From: Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group [mailto:LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Celso Alvarez Cáccamo
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Well, I'm definitely going to call it "zoio": "THE YEAR ZOIO", and so on.
45 W3 KN0W, L3773R5 C4N B3 R34D 4S NUM83R5 4ND V1C3V3R54 . So, H4PPY N3W Y34R ZOIO!

Now the question is what "ZOIO" means in different languages. To start with, one of the commentators' name in that thread is "zoio" ;-) . In Brazilian Portuguese, it is a dialectal, informal version of "olho", 'eye'. And there's a village in Portugal, Zoio.

-C3L50
celso

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Language Log has an amusing discussion of what to call this new year...

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2012

Happy New Year to you all!

Leila

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