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Re: Libram

Subject: Re: Libram
From: Artur Jachacy <arturj.usenet@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12 Dec 2006 16:12:45 +0100
Newsgroups: sci.lang
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:45:46 -0500, CDB wrote:
> Outside of gaming or SF sites, AOL for other languages; it can also 
> mean "a pound" as a grammatical object in Latin.  It's no better for 
> other possible forms: "libramus" always seems to mean "we weigh out"; 
> "libramum" and "libramis" get no hits; "librama" does occur in what 
> look like Polish and Hungarian texts, but I can't get dictionary sites 
> to admit the word means anything in those languages.  Maybe it's an 
> inflected form.

All Google hits for 'librama' in Polish are inflected forms of
'libram' and all seem to pertain to the computer game World of Warcraft.

A.
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