A further note on autim tiket

Thomas H. Slone THSlone at usa.net
Fri Sep 21 22:05:38 EST 2001


Smith (1990: 284) gives a few more meanings for the phrase "outim tiket":
1) "to disadvantage"
2) "to mark as desirable"
3) "to have had sex with"
4) "to beat"
5) "to kill"
6) "to win the favors of"

Smith is a good source for many other words and meanings that were 
not in Mihalic.

--Tom Slone
tom at potency.berkeley.edu
THSlone at usa.net

===

Smith, Geoff P. (1990). "Idiomatic Tok Pisin and referential 
adequacy." In: Melanesian Pidgin and Tok Pisin: Proceedings of the 
First International Conference of Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia, 
John W. M. Verhaar, ed. Studies in Language Companion Series, Volume 
20. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, pp. 275-287.
-- 


More information about the Mihalic mailing list