Dinotopia

[John Schneiderman <dino@revelation.unomaha.edu>]

On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Ronald Orenstein wrote:

> >> If "dinosaur" means "terrible reptile" and "Deinonychus" means "terrible 
> >> claw," and if both come from the Greek, why aren't they spelled and 
> >> pronounced similarly? We also have "Deinocheirus" and "Deinodon" so 
> >> maybe we should have "deinosaur" instead of "dinosaur." :-)
> 
> Or "Deinotopia" instead of "Dinotopia", which, incidentally, means "terrible
> place"!

 "Dinosaur" mean "terrible lizard" but not "terrible" in the bad 
sense but "terrible" in the awesome sense

---John Schneiderman (dino@revelation.unomaha.edu)