RE: [CH] Piri Piri Chile?
Bloechl, Sharen Rund (sharen.rund.bloechl@lmco.com)
Wed, 05 May 1999 07:23:18 -0700
Don't forget the Sierras [Spanish for mountains] which many people refer to
as the Sierra Mountains, the Sierra Madre Mountains, etc. . .B-)
Sharen Rund Bloechl
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From: Brent Thompson[SMTP:brent@hplbct.hpl.hp.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 5:37 PM
To: Peter Moss
Cc: Chile-Heads@globalgarden.com
Subject: Re: [CH] Piri Piri Chile?
> We see piri piri, pila pila, berebere and for the soccer fans Bafana
> Bafana and so on. I guess the repeated word means that it is thought to
be
> exceptional in some way.
Or sometimes this is just a convention for linguistic pleasure. Standard
English doesn't use replication nearly as much as some other languages
(like some African ones, obviously), but even so we sometimes do related
things, e.g. 'super-duper' -- and I've read that Cockney dialect uses
replication a lot.
--- Brent