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Round gave birth to flat
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From: "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@csuohio.edu>
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Subject: Re: Round gave birth to flat
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 06:11:29 -0700 (PDT), Dušan Vukotić
<dusan.vuko...@gmail.com> wrote in
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in sci.lang:
[...]
> The language evolved logically and nothing happened by
> chance.
<SPLORK!!!>
[...]
> In reality, round (hobl-) gave birth to flat (plateau,
> field, Serb, poljana; Serb. pljosnato 'flat').
Not quite up to Franz's standard of silliness, but getting
there.