From jcowan@reutershealth.com Thu Feb 3 07:44:56 2000 X-Digest-Num: 353 Message-ID: <44114.353.1906.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 10:44:56 -0500 From: John Cowan Subject: Re: And the Eskimos have 100 words for 'Snow Cone' X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 1906 Ivan A Derzhanski wrote: > Never mind `fun'; why is there no word for `meal' in Russian > (or Bulgarian, or many other languages for that matter)? Is that > a specifically English concept? Indeed, and why is there no word for "hakamaro'o"* in English? Is it a specifically Pascuan concept? Surely not. Garages throughout the U.S. are filled with objects obtained thereby. *Rough translation: "the act of borrowing something, with no intention of returning it, as a mild form of malicious sabotage." -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)