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   From: alexander koryagin    
      
   Hi, Denis Mosko!   
   I read your message from 31.01.2014 14:31   
      
     ak>>>> What is "the small of the back"?   
     PQ>>> It's an imprecise area at the base of the spine, in   
     PQ>>> line with the top of the hips.   
     DM>   
     ak>> It is probably anachronism, appeared in the time when a   
     ak>> human waist was the thinnest area of a torso. Nowadays, the   
     ak>> author should write "the big   
     ak>> of the back". ;=)   
     DM>   
     DM> The big of the back (?)   
      
   Modern people are overweighted, and they have the form of a weaver's    
   spindle. ;) So their waists are the big of their backs. It was a joke.   
      
   Bye, Denis!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
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