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Re: [lojban] Re: learning lojban
- To: lojban@egroups.com
- Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: learning lojban
- From: Pierre Abbat <phma@oltronics.net>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:09:14 -0400
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>>and xekri [black]
>
>A "kri"py color.
Think of Krishna (which means "black" as well as the name of a god). The "xe"
is Chinese hei, which I happen to remember from a display of Chinese fonts in
one of Hofstadter's books. In case you know Russian, "krishna" is the cognate
of "chorny".
Can a printer be described as cicnynukpelxe'i?
phma