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Re: vlaxajmi

At 12:58 PM 5/6/99 +0200, Evgueni.Sklyanin wrote:
>From: "Evgueni.Sklyanin" <esklyani@enslapp.ens-lyon.fr>
>> From: "Arnt Richard Johansen" <enkefalos@hotmail.com>
>> 
>
>> ni'o lei rusko djini cu ruble
>> 
>.uu jetnu
>
>(money = jdini)

One of the few places where we were tempted to override the wordmaking
algorithm for fear of offending people.  The word "ruble" for "weak" was
made back in 1987, when there was no particular sign in the West that the
Russian economy was in trouble.

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