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 HenHanna to All 
 Bog Latin (in Ireland) comes in (at leas 
 05 Sep 24 16:34:17 
 
XPost: alt.usage.english, soc.culture.irish
From: HenHanna@devnull.tb

      so far...  i'm getting the sense that
                Bog Latin (in Ireland)  comes in (at least)  2  forms :


1.  looks much like  real Latin, with some humorous vocab
                                   -- the kind used by James Joyce
                                        in his letters to friends


2.  rougher and slangy...  (like Shelta?)

       e.g.     liber  means  "sea"  ------ used in FW (Finnegans Wake)
                sabar  means  "eye"


------  just  these 2 samples (liber, sabar)   suggest that...
                  (Vocab -wise)
                  There's no overlap between the 2 forms (of Bog Latin)

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