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: LawPunditSupreme Court Word of the Day: Orthogonal - News - ABA Journal
By Andis Kaulins
The Supreme Court Justices indicated in oral argument that they may want to use this word in a coming "opinion" or "dissent".
The world orthogonal stems from ancient Greek mathematics and the Greek language ????? (orthos), meaning "straight", and ????? (gonia), meaning "angle".
To help the Justices keep up in this field of inquiry, we recommend our (alleged) decipherment of the Phaistos Disc, which we claim to be written in Ancient Greek and to contain Euclid's 5th postulate, which starts out as follows in our decipherment transliteration found at our blog Minoan Culture:
"[SIDE A of the Phaistoc Disc] "Foreseen (are) - as given - standing straight lines (perpendiculars)" - to be constructed (drawn).".
Full post as published by LawPundit on January 18, 2010 (boomark / email).
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