Re: Amusing typo (Was: Re: Cherokee readers)

Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>>Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
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>>>Any of you qalamities out there fairly comfortable readers of Cherokee?
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>I think I missed it the first time...
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>"Qalamities" would be pronounced more or less like "calamities" in
>English! NOt sure who first used "Qalamite[s]", but I like the term.
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As John Cowan correctly surmised, this was decidedly NOT a typo. It's
my own variant of "qalamites"--though of course you're all encouraged to
pick it up.

Yes, I made up "lingweenie" to refer to us language geeks (if you're on
qalam, you're probably also a lingweenie). And of course, people like
John and me, who study Lojban, are Lojbananas.

~mark