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Re: [OT] Interesting?

• Posted by 1evan at sbcglobal.net Jul 18, 2003
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Well, according to Webster:
Main Entry: fore=B7bear
Pronunciation: -"bar, -"ber
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English (Sc), from fore- + -bear (from been to be)
: ANCESTOR=20
<http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=3DDictionary&va=3Dancestor>,=
=20
FOREFATHER=20
<http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=3DDictionary&va=3Dforefather>;=
=20
also : PRECURSOR=20
<http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=3DDictionary&va=3Dprecursor> --=
=20
usually used in plural



gertie at visionsix.com wrote:

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>On 18 Jul 2003, at 14:35, Carl W. wrote:
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>>1evan at sbcglobal.net wrote:
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>>=20=20=20=20
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>>>http://www.earth360.com/math-naturesnumbers.html
>>>=20=20=20=20=20=20
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>>[Warning: I'm shooting from the hip here.]
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>>Eeesh. That looked a lot like near-religious crankism to me.
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>>The arguments in that page would have been better if they had been=20
>>introduced on several pages rather than in one big rant.
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>>A menu to those pages would have been good too. e.g.
>>* Dozenal - Why I think it's a good base
>>* A dozenal notation system - could these be nature's numbers?
>>* The human body and dozenal.
>>* Other numberical bases and their uses in history.
>>* etc.
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>>Also; If you're trying to make a serious argument, you don't use bright=
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>>yellow as your background colour...
>>=20=20=20=20
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>I didn't see the yellow. But they used the alledged word "forebears", whic=
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>nothing to me. All it could mean is "the the bear that came first". Now,=
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>"forebearers" is a different word, and does make sense.
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