Re: USAGE: Dinos and dragons
| From: | czHANg <fengxing-czhang@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 13, 2000, 6:38 |
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On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 00:31:54 -0400, Constructed Languages List wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 10:30:57PM -0700, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:
> [snip]
> > Tying back in to Danny's comments about dragons and dinosaur knowledge,
> > there is this:
> > "The dragon seems to perpetuate the tradition of primæval flying
saurians of
> > geologic times, now known only through their fossilized remains. The
Lamas
> > and Chinese Buddhists have assimilated them with the mythical serpants
> > (Naga) of Indian myth."
> [snip]
>
> "Naga"!! That's the Malay word for "dragon". Hmmm....
>
>
> T
Perhaps _naga_ is from either Sanskrit or Pali... 0_o?
BTW I was born in the Year Of The Dragon (1964... there are 64 hexagrams in
the I Ching, hehe...)
czHANg
"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a
brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish to the
crowd."
- from the _I Ching_, 3rd hexagram
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