--- Jan Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Jan Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <snipped all but phrases of interest> > > > Since no-one else has asked...what do these > > phrases/words mean? (Maru of course I know) > > Lenape, spelling I am unsure of, but then there are > so many ways to properly > spell in Lenape, I am sure I hit one of them with > each word. > > > > Uh...phwit lamunkpelechis! > > Oh...phooey underpants!
<ROTFLOL> I got a garbled visual of the cartoon character 'Hong Kong Phooey' in dirty diapers... > > > kpentai maru > > -Do you understand me- maru > > like "savvy?" > an afermative sersponse would be "kpentul" Kpentul And Wakarimas* Maru *?sp; my roommate and I, while the miniseries "Shogun" was running back in the early '80s, used various Japanese phrases that we'd learned from the show; 'wakarimas' is my phonetic spelling of the word which, IIRC, means "I understand" (and 'wakarimaska?' meant 'do you understand?') :) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
