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Re: Missing the sky

From:William Annis <annis@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 6, 2002, 14:02
 >From: Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
 >
 >Rami can't have a word for "sky".
 >The sky is not a thing... it is not a direction, really... I don't think it
 >can be a verb...  It's just an abstract concept, an idea.

        The sky may not be a thing in a modern world view, but several
ancient cultures certainly thought the sky was a thing.  Why not take
a historical perspective, and let the sky be a thing?

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William Annis  -  System Administrator -  Biomedical Computing Group
"When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do
towards other humans."                       Marcus Aurelius  VII.65