jjbowks | Re: First Comments about EuroPidgin

Spanish speakers will make a verb
out of almost anything by attaching
-ear to the word root... e.g.
torear, videar, chantajear,
telefonear, etc.

One could imagine...
construsionear, visear, computerear,
printear, televidear, xeroxear,
cocacolear, detoxear, botoxear,
etc.

Since,
Jay B.

--- In europidgin@y..., "Viktoro" <vixcafe@y...> wrote:
> [...] Any Romance speaker would take -ir, -er, and -ar to be the
full
> ending of an infinitive, not just -r as it is claimed.  For that,
I
> advocate just -ar:  estar, vadar, habar,...  It is more regular.
>
> Creoles have the tendency to regularize of course.  In Guam, they
> say "Buenas dias!" not "Buenos dias!"  It's a similar phenomenon.
>