Date: 2008-10-01 05:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oedipamaas49.livejournal.com
There's a similar saying about Sanskrit: every word means itself, its opposite, a type of lotus, a sexual position, and the name of a God.

[with variations, e.g. substituting elephant for lotus]

No idea where it comes from - a kind of academic folk wisdom, I guess.
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