I didn't grow up in this part of Ontario, but I think I maybe understand, having lived in random places in KW and Ottawa for school and work (MIT of the North 📢📢📢📢) And really anyone who didn't grow up in really the city city of Toronto has their own experience of that Ontario suburban malaise
monica callaghan@monica-callaghan.bsky.social · 2mo agoour moody toxic teenage fencing love story Half Step Princess is out now written for #toxicyurivnjam 2, featuring ~30k words of girls with swords, incredible art by @madsmiyun.bsky.social and an original soundtrack by In Love With a Ghost @lvghst.bsky.social monicacallaghan.itch.io/half-step-hime
![Screenshot from The Interplay of Morphology and Phonology, p.139
Henry, professional football (soccer) player), Lori → Lolo (Lori Jones, track and field athlete), Sisleide → Sisi (Sisleide do Amor Lima, professional football (soccer) player), and LeBron → Bron-Bron (professional basketball player). One could argue that Didi, Coco, etc. were previously established nicknames that were assigned to Dietmar and Covelli on the basis of alliteration; however, LeBron is an uncommon name and the nickname Bron-Bron appears to have been created on the fly for this particular athlete.
Double truncation of this kind has been attested as an established grammatical construction in several languages. Perhaps the most striking comes from Guarijio (Uto-Aztecan, Tarahumaran) inceptive reduplication, which applies to verbs denoting iterated punctual events (Caballero 2007; data from Miller 1996: 65–6):
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toní ‘to boil’ to-tó ‘to start boiling’ [Guarijio]
sibá ‘to scratch’ si-sí ‘to start scratching’
čonó ‘to fry (INTR)’ čo-čó ‘to start frying’
nogá ‘to move’ no-nó ‘to start moving’
kusú ‘to sing (animals)’ ku-kú ‘to start singing’
suhku ‘to scratch body’ su-sú ‘to start scratching the body’
muhíba ‘to throw’ mu-mú ‘to start throwing’
According to Caballero (2007: 278), “There is no independent process of truncation in the language, and the base is only shortened in this reduplicative construction.” These Guarijio inceptives are thus structurally parallel to Bron-Bron, but without the wordplay dimension that can enter into nickname formation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:svjc22rncygecys3egf44x66/bafkreicmvhbsvjie4o6ptlwjegakk2bx6ivnj3jionero2xahsph332pim)
![ajaljib n. “awakening‐instrument” » ya-ja-la ji[bi] > yajal(a)jib “the awakening‐instrument” TIK MT 216b: Q-R
» […]-ja ji[bi] > [ya]ja[l]jib PNG Plate sherd
» ya-ja ji-bi > yaja[l]jib COL PSM Plate
» ya-ja ji-bi > yaja[l]jib COL MRBA Plate
see: aj-, -jib, y-
from Erik Boot's Updated Preliminary Classic Maya - English, English Classic - Maya Vocabulary of Hieroglyphic Readings](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:svjc22rncygecys3egf44x66/bafkreihuwy6hi5wb5hi6slvs4oyn345sdvs2n75u5m2h7z7m7ziq7jmqbe)
