Re: raj / rex

From: tgpedersen
Message: 61618
Date: 2008-11-14

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2008-11-14 19:01, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > > I agree I am irrerevant but then, I want you to be more
> > > straight forward.
> >
> > No, it is spelled irrelevant.
>
> Perhaps it's a Humpty-Dumptyism for "irrelevant as well as
> irreverent".

I know that in Japanese it is irrererant and in Chinese it is
illelelant, of which there are many in Kishore's country:
http://tinyurl.com/3ttxvw
http://tinyurl.com/694jn9
But that can't be the case here. I am afraid we must leave it as one
of those riddles and conditinalities which plague linguistics in its
present form.


Torsten