Currency, watermelons
| From: | Matt McLauchlin <matt_mcl@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 5, 2000, 16:02 |
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> >ObConlang: What do y'all call currencies in your languages, if any such
> >exist?
The isik [ísik], which is divided into 50 pishka [picka] (singular = pishk).
>Some red-blooded Americans feel that anyone who calls upon government
>to step in the way of progress and impose regulations upon business (even
>environmental ones) must be a Communist (just listen to Rush Limbaugh rant
>about environmentalism). Likewise, the Esperantists, with their talk of
>"one world" and the organization of club "cells" that Esperantists form,
>suggest to the uninitiated "Communist sympathies." In fact, we in America
>have a long history of hysterically declaring everything unfamiliar to be
>tainted with "Communism." Even the word "socialism" has negative
>connotations here in America.
That's exactly it.
Blessed be, Écartons ces romans
Matt McLauchlin qu'on appèle systèmes,
GM18, Montreal, Canada Et pour nous éléver
English/français/esperanto descendons dans nous-mêmes.
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