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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:
> With the rise of the Minoans, the Egyptians would have
> taken the foreign name *Kuptar and reshaped it into
> meaningful native words, just as Chinese do with English
> words today. Eg: America => Mei-guo "beautiful country".
> Don't ask me what Koukekoula (Coca-Cola) means but I'm
> sure it means something.
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From:
http://www.skepticfiles.org/urban/cocacola.htm
" K'o = To permit, be able, may, can
K'ou = Mouth, hole, pass, harbor
K'o = as above
Le^ = Joy, to rejoice, to laugh, to be happy
It would seem that the Chinese trademark means to permit
mouth to be able to rejoice -- or something palatable from which one
derives pleasure."
I seem to remember that they were even able to make the
characters look like the English script "Coca-Cola", but this isn't
borne out by the pictures of bottles and cans I find.
Dan