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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just coming from holidays in the Sepik near the
River.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>bautim:-- "Yumi no ken go long dispela rot, em i
bautim ples tais na em i longwe tumas."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is possible that this speaker was making a
neologism, but he is not an English speaker, and was not trying to be funny. The
word as I understood it meant, "go raun long".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>pretim:- I continue to run into
the use of this expression in the non-transitive sense.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> e.g., "Dispela pikinini i no
save pretim dok."</FONT></DIV>
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"Mi wanpela meri mi save pretim bik si."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>These statements don't make sense in the transitive
meaning. Here the meaning seems to be: pretim = is afraid of.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Olsem, husat i guria taim mi tok, "Jeff i save
pretim mi"?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Pat
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