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#87894 11/26/02 11:17 PM
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From "engines":
The Hindu god Brahma
supposedly based letters on the shape of the seams in a
human skull.

Tut,tut. In anatomy, the line along which skull bones join is a "suture.
Has to be Latin, or it's got no class. Looks better on the bill, too.


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Brahma din't speak no stinking langridge of no stinking farmers on no stinking little spit of land in no stinking little western lake. You want class you use Samscrip.


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In reply to:

Brahma din't speak no stinking langridge of no stinking farmers on no stinking little
spit of land in no stinking little western lake.


May we please request the History of the Western World as related by Sir Faldage--in the exact voice as quoted above? If we could read such a history written in that kind of voice, I imagine this would be a history I, at least, would stick with.

Chapter I: "The Garden"


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Sounds like an idea, Dub'. Lemme git started.


#87898 11/28/02 06:20 AM
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Is there any relationship with "to sew"? since in Italian we use suture for the process of sewing anatomical tissues in surgical acts.


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emanuela, it's "suture" in English, too, when you sew someone up.


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Sew, suture and

http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE518.html

in a surprise appearance, the Sanskrit Sutra.


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Ne sutor ultra crepidam.



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