Re: Putin's gambit

On 11 Maijs, 18:20, hol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Eugene Holman) wrote:

[snip]

> > Probably
> > not, because Gene, more than anybody I've ever met, is an unchanging
> > product of the _gaism=3DE7nas_his time.
>
> The exotic word did not show up on my display. Could you xlain what it
was=

> supposed to be?

gaism=E7na [gaismena]
I  n
  1)  chiaroscuro;   WordNet 1.6 Copyright =A9 1997 by Princeton
University. All rights reseved
  - a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the
same color
lights and darks;
  1)  polygraphy  black-and-white;
  2)  light and shade;
  3)  chequered light and shade;
  4)  the lights and darks;


Literally at the roots in Latvian, gaisma + =E7na, light + shadow.

Regards,
/P