08-19-2005, 03:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-19-2005, 03:43 PM by Rhydderch Hael.)
TriggerHappy,Aug 18 2005, 03:24 PM Wrote:By the way, 'Reaktny' means 'Reactive'.Sort of fits. A rocket is a reaction motor, after all.
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And 'granata' is easy to understand. The Spanish word for pomegranates, 'granada' was used to describe small hollow bombs filled with lead shot. When the English butted heads with Spain in the Americas, the term for the weapon carried over as the 'granado shell', which evolved into 'grenade'. The Russian term easily traces it origins to that same Spanish moniker.
Political Correctness is the idea that you can foster tolerance in a diverse world through the intolerance of anything that strays from a clinical standard.