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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=453063422-10012005>Pat -
Can you clarify. Did the speaker mean "raunim ples rais", i.e. skirts a swamp,
or "brukim ples tais", i.e. goes over/through a swamp?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=453063422-10012005>Note
that we have the 1st sense on the web site under "baut, bautim", for
example:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=453063422-10012005><!--StartFragment --><FONT color=#000000 size=3><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>"rot i baut planti" the road is very
winding</FONT> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=453063422-10012005>"em i
bautim poin" he rounded the point</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=453063422-10012005>John
Burton</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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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> Pat
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