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Hallo,

Stefan Sandberg escreveu:
> (Btw, I don't see how the portuguese word for 'moon' would be any more
> poetic than the english or estonian or japanese one...)
> 

     Let me help you:

"In the Portuguese language (as in the universe of Portuguese words),
Lua is a beautiful word and has poetic meaning."

BTW, your top-posting screwed it up, so the original text by LHF follows.

> 
> Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
>>> This just goes to prove that how you name a language is important
>>>     
>>
>> "Lua" is a beautiful word in Portuguese and has a poetic meaning.
>> But it means "toilet" in Hawaiian and is also a Hawaiian martial art.
>> It also means something in Vietnamese, but I don't know what.
>>

Cheers,
-alex