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Pre-hominid apes is far back enough.
So you accept that we acknowledge the Greek words as the original then?
So you accept that we acknowledge the Greek words as the original then?
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Where did you get that?
"Nau" is the original, which isn't Greek.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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How did they call "astronauts"?Originally posted by DanS
Pre-hominid apes is far back enough.
Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
And notifying the next of kin
Once again...Comment
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I was trying to imply the Greeks are pre-homi... never mind.Originally posted by DanS
Where did you get that?
"Nau" is the original, which isn't Greek.
One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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You're way ahead of me there. Please see Paiktis's post, above.
"How did they call "astronauts"?"
I don't know. SD seems to have some theories, though.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Astronauts get all the Tang they want"Chegitz, still angry about the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991?
You provide no source. You PROVIDE NOTHING! And yet you want to destroy capitalism.. you criminal..." - Fez
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Spationaut is the word some (esp. french) wants to be for any european spaceman. But as there is no written rule...Originally posted by DanS
But then it appears that "spationauts" also refers sometimes to Italians as well?
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The French are known of expecting the whole Europe to use French terms and French behavior. They also wanted to call the ECU (now Euro) "Franc". But nobody, including me, is following this bs. I'm not going to eat Frogs either.Originally posted by Dry
Spationaut is the word some (esp. french) wants to be for any european spaceman. But as there is no written rule...
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The French in wanting to oppose US Cultural dominance want evrything to be French.Originally posted by Sir Ralph
The French are known of expecting the whole Europe to use French terms and French behavior. They also wanted to call the ECU (now Euro) "Franc". But nobody, including me, is following this bs. I'm not going to eat Frogs either.
I for one prefer the YanksSpace is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Originally posted by Sir Ralph
The French are known of expecting the whole Europe to use French terms and French behavior. They also wanted to call the ECU (now Euro) "Franc". Never heard that. I'm french speaking and listen sometimes french medias. I swear I never heard that. If that was true, I am sure all Belgium would have been aware of it and dead from laughing.
I always heard that most of europe was for ECU, but it was Germany who disagreed.
ECU was too franco-british. ECU is both an english acronym and the name of an old french currency. This p*****-*** the Germans and they asked to change it... leading to the ugly EURO word.
My vote goes clearly to ECU.
I tried. It's tasteless, close to chicken. No big deal. I prefer snails, from far.I'm not going to eat Frogs either.
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The Dutch sometimes use the word astronaut, sometimes the Dutch word 'ruimtevaarder', which (coincidentally?) is a literal translation of cosmonaut ('ruimte' = space (cosmos), 'vaarder' ~= sailor (nautis)).
But usually we just call him Wubbo Ockels
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When we were building the Acropolis, you were monkeys living in trees you xevyalmene egglezeOriginally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
I was trying to imply the Greeks are pre-homi... never mind.
Or another
When we were having cholesterole problems, you were still eating roots
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You built it did youOriginally posted by paiktis22
When we were building the Acropolis, you were monkeys living in trees you xevyalmene eggleze
Or another
When we were having cholesterole problems, you were still eating roots
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Really? The Greeks evolved into human beings before everyone else?
"Paul Hanson, you should give Gibraltar back to the Spanish" - Paiktis, dramatically over-estimating my influence in diplomatic circles.
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