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Re: [romconlang] Anglo-Spanish: Beginning Sketches



On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 12:24:19 +0000, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea@hidden.email> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 05 Mar 2005, at 01:48, Gregory H. Bontrager wrote:
> > Infinitive: lûnchar = to have lunch
> 
> I was just skimming through the beginning sketches, and when I came to
> this, I felt it more likely that this infinitive would be "lûnchear".
> I checked with my Colombian wife about how she would borrowed the
> English verb "to lunch" and "lunchear" was the definite result.

Actually, in Mexican-American Spanish at least, the word "lunch" has
already been adopted as "Lonchear", not "Lunchear"

I've heard "lonche" used frequently.


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