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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:

> > You know, I never thought of couscous as a count noun -- for me it's 
> > like rice or corn.

> I'm sure it's the article that's to blame -- *ul cuscus* just doesn't 
> work; it has to be *uls cuscus*, which then invites the backfromation of 
> *ul cuscu* meaning is single grain of cuscus. And thus weirds the 
> language.

Indeed!

Was there ever an *ul cuscus earlier on, that became seen as wrong? Thus
leading to the later weirdness?

> Adam

Padraic