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From: fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Let's speak Latin
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Date: 28 Oct 89 20:41:21 GMT
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Reply-To: fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home)
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In article <21383@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>>no particular problems and neither did my Oskar or Dempsey or any of their
>
>By this logic there shouldn't be any unix groups either, because
>every time I use mail or news, I have no problems.

Hmm, and here I thought I wrote about my buddy Oskar (that's his name, really)
in mail. Must have slipped into news while I was in a fishy stupor.

>And the common name for Astronotus ocellarus is spelled O-S-C-A-R.

I had been reading Staeck & Linke's "Amerikanische Cichliden II. Grosze
Buntbarsche" (Tetra Verlag) in German and thought 'Oskar' was the proper name
among us common folk.

But if I were to refer to my fish by their Latin names, I would at least use
the correct one: Astronotus ocellatus (not ocellarus). And I wouldn't even be
trying to impress anyone.

As for the logic about my not reading alt.aquaria because I had no problems to
fix, well, I have an Irish Setter too and I don't subscribe to wherever talk
about pets may be held. "Penny" is quite content with her environment as are
her fishy friends. After all, there is a limit to how much we can with the
'net'.

alt.sex was nice for a while, but now I need the practice.
fr

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