Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:22:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: bodies


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It sounds like "spoor niets", which -- while lacking grammar -- would mean something like "track/trail/trace nothing". Not in conformity with poststructuralist thought, I'm afraid, Bill.Rutger--- Bill Spornitz  wrote:> While we're on the subject, someone once told me> that Spornitz means > *off the rails* in Dutch (spoor nits)  > b> > > > > > >  > Ljubljana / Slovenia> >> >In the Finnish translation of "The Meaning of Liff"> by Douglas Adams and> >some other bloke Ljubljana means bathfart (no, it's> not a word in Finnish> >either).> >> >M> >> >> >> >      --- from list> avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---> 

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