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[Thomas H. Slone]

>In Bislama, blulang is a blowfly (Crowley, 1995).
>
>The Bislama word is "bluflae" not "blulang". I checked on this
>because, in general, the words of Austronesian origin in the Bislama
>and Tok Pisin lexicons show very little overlap.
>
>Ross Clark

Yes, I stand corrected.  I relied on my notes rather than reconsulting Crowley.

>>In Bislama, blulang is a blowfly (Crowley, 1995).    The usage
>>below (from Wantok) also indicates blowfly (which are carnivorous)
>>rather than March fly (which are not).  Can anyone confirm that blu
>>lang does not mean blow fly, or was this omission unintentional?
>
>blu lang -- I can't understand what you wrote here. I think Mihalic was
>using "March fly" in error. "Can anyone confirm that blu lang does not mean
>blow fly?" -- do you mean "does mean"?
>John Burton

This should have read:

In Bislama, blulang is a blowfly (Crowley, 1995).    The usage below
(from Wantok) also indicates blowfly (which are carnivorous) rather
than March fly (which are not).  Can anyone confirm that blu lang
does not mean March fly, or was this omission unintentional?


--Tom Slone

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