Re: [CR]Re: Swiss bottoms...cranksets, not girls

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From: <themaaslands@comcast.net>
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org (Classic Rendezvous)
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Swiss bottoms...cranksets, not girls
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 05:36:53 +0000

Jerry wrote:

"S for Sinistre, of course, Italian for "left". Left-handed people are so persecuted - in Italy they are "sinister". At least in France they are merely "gauche"."

The true translation of left in Italian is 'sinistra'. Left-handed people are also not called 'sinister' or any related word. They are actually called 'mancino(i)(a)(e)'. In French they are 'gaucher', not gauche.

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Steven Maasland
Moorestown, NJ