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On 6/19/05, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@hidden.email> wrote: > Some languages (Arabic, I think) seem to get by with a single word for > "long" and "tall." Since tall just means "long in a vertical direction, I > think ceqli can too. The base word is, coincidentally, Arabic "tauil", > (ta-WEEL), opposite "tliua" (TLEE-wa). And, when necessary, compounds could > be made - veritauil "vertically long", horitliua "horizontally short" etc. That sounds good. But how will you say something like "the room is five meters long, three meters wide, and two and a half meters high"? Probably more like "the room measures five meters by three meters by two and a half meters", I reckon... -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/review/log.htm