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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Linguistic Fun Fact 001

Khmae has a word that nounifies any verb! Of course it's most common with certain words, but you can technically use it on any of them. The word is "gaa" (same vowel sound as "cat") and if you say "gaa study," with study as a verb, it becomes "studies" as a noun. If you say "gaa travel," with travel as a verb, it becomes "travels" like the noun. Of course, you'd use the Khmae words for study and travel.

English, take note.

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