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From: jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman)
Subject: Re: "Lap" unique to English?
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 01:42:14 GMT
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dgary@mindspring.com (D Gary Grady) writes:

>Languages differ, of course, in the ways in which the divide up the
>world, so that one language will have a name for the side of the hand
>toward which the fingers curl (the palm) and others will have a
>speical name for the other side, and still others may simply refer to
>the front and back of the hand (or some such) without the use of
>distinctive words.

In English, your hand does not count as part of your arm, but your
fingers count as part of your hand.  In Russian, it is the other way
around.

---  Joe Fineman    jcf@world.std.com

||:  How lucky that all the war criminals were on the losing  :||
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