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<DIV><SPAN class=366352612-10012005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Fr
Pat: I've heard this use of 'pretim' alot around Madang, for the past couple of
years. Just tonight I suggested painting a lizard for my granddaughter and her
mother said, 'Nogat--em bai pretim em!' Poretim/pretime seems to be 'to
scare' as well as 'to fear.' ---Nancy Sullivan</FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> mihalic-bounces@anu.edu.au
[mailto:mihalic-bounces@anu.edu.au]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Fr Patrick Gesch,
SVD<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, 10 January 2005 6:22 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Mihalic
List<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Mihalic] bautim, pretim<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<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
Gesch.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>