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Dnia poniedzia=B3ek, 8 wrze=B6nia 2014 10:25:49 tijlan pisze:

> "World-around" is a term coined by Fuller to replace "worldwide". The
> general belief in a flat Earth died out in classical antiquity, so
> using "wide" is an anachronism when referring to the surface of the
> Earth--a spheroidal surface has area and encloses a volume but has no
> width. Fuller held that unthinking use of obsolete scientific ideas
> detracts from and misleads intuition. Other neologisms collectively
> invented by the Fuller family, according to Allegra Fuller Snyder, are
> the terms "sunsight" and "sunclipse", replacing "sunrise" and "sunset"
> to overturn the geocentric bias of most pre-copernican celestial
> mechanics.

So... a Whorfian by heart?

> Fuller also invented the word "livingry," as opposed to weaponry (or
> "killingry"), to mean that which is in support of all human, plant,
> and Earth life. "The architectural profession--civil, naval,
> aeronautical, and astronautical--has always been the place where the
> most competent thinking is conducted regarding livingry, as opposed to
> weaponry."

If he was Polish he wouldn't have to invent these. In the Polish language "=
weapon" is "bro=F1" which has the same root as "broni=E6", meaning "to defe=
nd, to prevent". But wait! It goes deeper! "To arm" is "zbroi=E6" which has=
 the same root as "zbroja", meaning "an armor". But does that mean we're al=
l pacifist? Heck no ;) That's one of the reasons that in my very humble opi=
nion Fuller was wrong, or at least criminally simplistic.
--=20
Ecce Jezuch
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When you reach your dreams
and you're not disappointed." -T. Wo=B3onciej

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