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Subject: Re: Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?
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by: whit3rd - Fri, 17 Feb 2023 04:25 UTC

On Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at 9:41:16 AM UTC-8, Rod Speed wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 23:33:31 +1100, Max Demian <max_d...@bigfoot.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 13/02/2023 21:48, Rod Speed wrote:
> >> On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 08:00:14 +1100, NY <m...@privacy.invalid> wrote:
> >>> "Rod Speed" <rod.sp...@gmail.com> wrote in message

> >>> Yes, I'm not saying that Japanese grass and veg is blue, just they
> >>> (apparently) used the same word to describe both green and blue.
> >> Sounds unlikely given that they must have noticed that the sky and
> >> grass arent the same color

.... and new grass blades aren't the same color as older ones.
But they're both called by the same name.

> But everyone else has a separate word for green and blue,
> so its more than a tad unlikely that the Japs didn't too.

Oh, there's a separate word for 'wave' and 'tsunami' in English.
But, probably it used to be 'wave and 'tidal wave' (i.e. no English word for it).

13. ... r-q1

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