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Re: [romconlang] Re: Which traditional dishes are there in your romlang?

--- On Tue, 5/10/11, Adam Walker <carraxan@hidden.email> wrote:

> Well, I suppose I could...if I find a reason for it. Actually, I was
> thinking that *cuscusu *really should be *cuscu* which would be a back
> formation after *cuscus* is analyzed as a plural after all, there shore 
> is a heapin lot of them thar cuscus in a bowl of the stuff, and who ever 
> heard of eatin jess one cuscu?

You know, I never thought of couscous as a count noun -- for me it's like
rice or corn. You can eat one bowl of couscous, but not one couscous.

Interesting that it would be seen as a plural form!

> Adam

Padraic