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Re: [lojban] Playing with Tanru and Fu'ivla... "Philips screwdriver"
On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 13:20:56 John E. Clifford wrote:
> How universal is the notion of a cross for this design? Or is it peculiar
> to Western, Christian, usage? Of course, there were crosses
> beforeChristinity and called crosses ( though the Greeks called execution
> instrument a post), but is something like that the stock name form two
> intersecting more less a right angles?
"kruca" doesn't imply an execution device. It just means that something
crosses something somewhere.
Pierre
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.i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do
.ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga
.icu'u la ma'atman.
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