[Mihalic] kai2

[Peter Cotterell]

I work for a shipping company that runs vessels around the PNG coast. Load
lists that come from our stevedores after the sailing of vessels from Lae to
Port Moresby always show containers of kaukau endoresd with "kau2" against
the container number.

I have seen this for at least the past 6 years.

Peter Cotterell (MAppl.Ling(TESOL)
Lae - Papua New Guinea


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eva Lindstrom" <evali at ling.su.se>
To: <Mihalic at anu.edu.au>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 12:14 AM
Subject: [Mihalic] kai2


> Hello all,
>
> are you familiar with the habit of writing words like kaikai,
> pukpuk etc as kai2, puk2 (with superscript '2')? I've seen it
> in personal letters (in New Ireland) and am curious how and
> where it may have developed -- between high school students
> separated in holidays or after leaving school? How spread is
> it? Are there other practices of a similar kind?
>
> Thanks & best wishes,
>
> Eva Lindström
> Linguistics
> Stockholm University
>
>
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