[Mihalic] kai2

[Catherine Levy and Charlie Edmunds]

I have seen it develop among Divine Word University  (Madang ) students in
the last 2 years.
As far as our campus was concerned, I thought that they might have developed
the habit from East Timorese students - whom we have had on campus for the
last 5 years - and whose first education language was Bahasa Indonesia.

Catherine Levy
Madang
----- 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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