--- David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > > > > > How dare you say Neanderthal! > > > > > > That's Neandertal. > > > > > > Greg Bear spells it Neandertal. > > > > > > Robert J. Sawyer spells it Neanderthal. > > "Tal" is German for valley. It used to be spelled "Thal", > and that's preserved in some place names. So either should be > fine, but Julia's right, one should say "tal". > It's like L'Hospital, the French mathematician. Current > texts spell his name using the "o with a hat over it" instead of > an "os". This is certainly easier on the students, since one > does not say the "s". On the other hand, HE spelled it with the > "os". So both are right, in various ways. >
Uh> to me it's like your arguing over what shade of brown.....dirt is.
Dunno about how much you've moved around, but I've seen dirt in colors ranging from a light tan or beige color like _cafe au lait_ all the way to nearly black, not to mention a lot of rich shades of red in areas where there is a lot of iron oxide in the soil. (Around here, you can even buy T-shirts which claim to be dyed with such dirt, though my mother would most likely not have thought that a wise use of money, as when I was growing up and we would go to her parents' farm, she would then spend much time, effort, and money trying to get the red clay _out_ of the clothes I had worn during the visit.)
I hear that a similarly wide variety of colors is found in poop, although I have been fortunate so far not to have personally witnessed some of the more extreme shades possible, the occurrence of which generally suggests a problem somewhere along the passage from intake orifice to outflow orifice.
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