Sometimes when reading linguistics papers, you come across these awesome example sentences that leave you wondering how on earth THAT came up in a fieldwork session.
Today's stunner:
Ke hang hèng keká i li.
‘He made accusations concerning his coconuts.’
Maybe there was a vendor of rotten coconuts...
ReplyDeleteIs that an idiom, or is it literal?
ReplyDeleteIt is true that Linguists are weird. Here is proof.
ReplyDelete(And don't click on that link unless you have time to procrastinate a bit.)
Haha! I love it.
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