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   HenHanna to All   
   Bog Latin (in Ireland) comes in (at leas   
   05 Sep 24 16:34:17   
   
   XPost: sci.lang, alt.usage.english   
   From: HenHanna@devnull.tb   
      
         so far...  i'm getting the sense that   
                   Bog Latin (in Ireland)  comes in (at least)  2  forms :   
      
      
   1.  looks much like  real Latin, with some humorous vocab   
                                      -- the kind used by James Joyce   
                                           in his letters to friends   
      
      
   2.  rougher and slangy...  (like Shelta?)   
      
          e.g.     liber  means  "sea"  ------ used in FW (Finnegans Wake)   
                   sabar  means  "eye"   
      
      
   ------  just  these 2 samples (liber, sabar)   suggest that...   
                     (Vocab -wise)   
                     There's no overlap between the 2 forms (of Bog Latin)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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