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From: donh@netcom.com (Don HARLOW)
Subject: Re: Languages in the EC
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taibi91@matrix.newpaltz.edu (solomon taibi) skribis en lastatempa afisxo <3hbpkp$t4@motss.newpaltz.edu>:
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>By the way, for all you Esperantists out there, if "padrino" means
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>"mother", what is the word for "godfather"?

"baptopatro" of course. "God" gets omitted because nobody believes 
that the individual in question is (a) the father of God, or (b) 
a god himself... :-)

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