Dragaera

"The Enchantress of Dzur Mountain" at Wikipedia

Thu Mar 18 16:01:31 PST 2004

> > >> 	"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.

Arriba, arriba!  Andale!
 - Speedy Gonzalez