On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, David Goldfarb wrote: > From: Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> > >On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Mark A Mandel wrote: > > > >> "Wiki wiki" means "fast" in the Hawaiian language > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWiki > > > >And reduplication can indicate "fast" in human, right? I swear there's a > >French word "vitvit". > > The French word for "quickly" is "vite". It's often reduplicated > in conversation -- "Vite! Vite!" -- but it's not considered one word. Yes, yes, I know, that's just the only even vague example I could come up with to lamely back my assertion. I think there's some Auden or Yeats poem that says, "quick, quick, to the music" but I can't pin it down. There's an expression something like "Le francais n'est pas beau, c'est vite", isn't there? I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it.