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<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span><SPAN class=215413519-21092005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>Si,</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span><SPAN class=215413519-21092005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>I think there is no connection whatsoever between
French "blesser/blessure" (to wound/the wound)</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span><SPAN class=215413519-21092005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>and "to bless/blessing." This reminds me of a prayer
which I once heard from an American</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span><SPAN class=215413519-21092005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>missionary in Côte d'Ivoire who prayed in French:
"Seigneur, blesse-nous" which every French-</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span><SPAN class=215413519-21092005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>speaking person can only understand as "Lord, wound
us."</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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class=215413519-21092005></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span><SPAN class=215413519-21092005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>Fritz</FONT> </SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span><SPAN class=215413519-21092005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>Si wrote:</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span><SPAN
class=215413519-21092005> </SPAN>The link between the Romance idea of
wounding (cf Fr la <I>la blessure</I>) and blessing also seems
significant.</SPAN></DIV>
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