Re: Vocab #4
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 22, 2002, 18:37 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: Vocab #4
> En réponse à Elliott Belser <renyard@...>:
>
> >
> > The language is Ng'and'ana, and Pulman is from PULMonary system...
> > you know, heart, veins arteries cetra cetra.
> >
>
> Except that the PULMonary system refers exclusively to the lungs, the
trachee
> (English word unknown... :( ), the larynx, etc... the air-breathing system
> (from Latin pulmo, pulmonis, which gave in French poumon: lung). Heart,
veins,
> arteries, etc... are referred to as the blood system in English, simply
(and in
> French it's "système sanguin"), or at least IIRC.
>
Well...the Circulatory System, actually, just FYI.
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