query: sarcastic antonymic nicknames

Mike Morgan mwmosaka at GMAIL.COM
Mon Nov 30 10:25:07 UTC 2009


> (Iruma speech) in Japanese dialectology (if I remember correctly). I believe
> that the name ‘Iruma kotoba’ and the anecdote cited above are well known
> among Japanese dialectologists.

Yes, quite right ... 入間詞 in Japanese in case anyone is interested in
finding more by googling...


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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