El Go na Dos W tupela warkurai i stap
Thomas H. Slone
tom at potency.berkeley.edu
Thu Nov 16 09:40:30 EST 2000
>"John Burton" <jburton at morobegold.com.pg> wrote:
>So far as I know, _samsam_ (not in Mihalic) is extremely rare outside WNB.
>However, I'm pretty sure I heard it recently when a bracket was coming loose
>on a car: "Em i samsam i go i kam, na nau lus olgeta". However, the speaker
>was cross about the bracket so I couldn't exactly quiz him further.
I have collected over 1000 Stori Tumbuna from Wantok newspaper onto my
computer and this assessment of regionalized usage of samsam does not
agree with this data. There are 14 occurrences of stories with
occurrences of samsam. The authors are from the following locations:
East Sepik Province: Sawos, Abelam (2), Urat, Iatmul
Morobe: Lae Town, Bundi/Gende, Mapos Buang, Kate
Enga (2)
East New Britain Province: Rabaul Town, Bainings
New Ireland: Kavieng Town
--Tom Slone
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Thomas H. Slone
Carcinogenic Potency Project
University of California at Berkeley,
and E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
tom at potency.berkeley.edu
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