From: Adam Walker (carrajena@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 23:32:01 EST
--- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@free.fr> wrote:
> En r廧onse ?Adam Walker :
>
>
> >PS What is tic-tac-toe in ANY Romlang?
>
> I don't know it in any ConRomlang, but in French
> it's Morpion, which is
> also a term used to talk about naughty boys (the
> kind like Dennis the
> Menace ;)) ) and the name for a species of parasites
> mostly found in pubic
> hair ;))) .
>
What a bizzarre semantic field! You wouldn't happen
to know the etymology would you?
ADam
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