[lit-ideas] Re: vocative particles

Monday, January 31, 2005, 8:44:37 PM, Mirembe Nantongo wrote:


MN> Meanwhile, I am saddened but not surprised to note that I am immortalized in
MN> Judy's mind as she-to-whom-sheep-&-goat-are-as-one.

not precisely, I assure you; she-who-feasts, certainly; I do though
remember a certain confusion...


MN>  Yes, we feasted a great
MN> feast with Tunisian friends this year,

ah. I bet the food was good.


MN> noting that people here don't seem to
MN> tie up their sacrificial sheep/goat in their urban front yard prior to the
MN> Eid as they do in Dakar. The sheep in Tunisia, you will be happy to learn,
MN> are the fluffy woolly kind even *I* can't confuse with goats.

The kind of sheep I know, yes -- as in best Welsh lamb (I say
heartlessly)

Judy




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