Book contents
- The Geography of Words
- The Geography of Words
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I How Words Are Studied
- Part II How Words Are Carved Out
- Part III How Things Are Done with Words
- 12 Traduttore, Traditore!
- 13 May You Suffer and Remember
- 14 I Screw Your 300 Gods
- 15 Either He Is Crazy or His Feet Stink
- 16 Shoo and Scat
- 17 A Dog and Pony Show
- 18 Blah-Blah-Blah, Yada-Yada-Yada
- 19 Acts of Darkness
- 20 This for That
- 21 Me Tarzan, You Jane
- 22 How Many Languages Do You Speak?
- 23 Harmful and Shitty People
- Part IV How Words Are Born
- Part V Where Words Live
- Part VI A Word After
- Part VII Words about Words
- References
- Index of Languages
- Person and Subject Index
21 - Me Tarzan, You Jane
from Part III - How Things Are Done with Words
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2021
- The Geography of Words
- The Geography of Words
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I How Words Are Studied
- Part II How Words Are Carved Out
- Part III How Things Are Done with Words
- 12 Traduttore, Traditore!
- 13 May You Suffer and Remember
- 14 I Screw Your 300 Gods
- 15 Either He Is Crazy or His Feet Stink
- 16 Shoo and Scat
- 17 A Dog and Pony Show
- 18 Blah-Blah-Blah, Yada-Yada-Yada
- 19 Acts of Darkness
- 20 This for That
- 21 Me Tarzan, You Jane
- 22 How Many Languages Do You Speak?
- 23 Harmful and Shitty People
- Part IV How Words Are Born
- Part V Where Words Live
- Part VI A Word After
- Part VII Words about Words
- References
- Index of Languages
- Person and Subject Index
Summary
This chapter is about the words in planned and constructed languages.
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- The Geography of WordsVocabulary and Meaning in the World's Languages, pp. 133 - 137Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021