Christian M. Cepel writes:
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| Just go with taxonomic nomenclature.
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| Call it a bovine. :)
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| Or walking hamburger or extra rare T-bone. :)
My wife likes to tell people about the calf they had when
she was little, which they named "Delicious".
When the calf was eventually made into dinne
Just go with taxonomic nomenclature.
Call it a bovine. :)
Or walking hamburger or extra rare T-bone. :)
John Chambers wrote:
Phil Taylor writes:
| John Chambers wrote:
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| >(One textbook example for English is the lack of any word that is the
| >singular form of "cattle". Other language
on 7/29/03 11:03 AM, Phil Taylor wrote:
> The singular of "cattle" is "cow". [...] I referred to
> "bull semen" at one point and my supervisor (himself a world expert
> in the field of Reproductive Biology) wanted it changed to "cow semen".
I saw a man milk a bull, fie, man, fie.
I saw a man mil
Phil Taylor writes:
| John Chambers wrote:
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| >(One textbook example for English is the lack of any word that is the
| >singular form of "cattle". Other languages have such words, and they
| >can't be translated to English with a single word. But you aren't
| >going to fix the English langua
John Chambers wrote:
>(One textbook example for English is the lack of any word that is the
>singular form of "cattle". Other languages have such words, and they
>can't be translated to English with a single word. But you aren't
>going to fix the English language; all you can do is chuckle a
