[Buddha-l] Big is beautiful (was: Review of a review)

[Dan Lusthaus]

Joy,

>> I believe the French word grand(e) plays a similar game.


>Not really. Grand is more vertical (lofty) whereas I see big mostly as
horizontal (expansive). Un grand homme, un grand monsieur, un grand geste,
un grand pays (generous and with lofty ideals)...


In English to be a "big man" or to be "big about it" carries that same lofty 
connotation. Just shows that "big" is bigger (vertically and horizontally) 
than "grand." Domage. :-)

Dan