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Daniel B. wrote:
<<On the contrary, I think we are.
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and then:
<<The reasons for not
calling birds dinosaurs is because such a statement is confusing (in the same way calling an elephant a vertebrate in everyday language is confusing---hey, look, a herd of vertebrates!) and a vast oversimplification. >> unless i've misunderstood your statements( it's
likely to be so, since i'm not english), i think there's a contraddiction
between the first and the second .....well, it wouldn't be a
contraddiction if you were saying that you want to confuse others' ideas, but i
don't think this is your case....
I wrote:
>>however as you know, nobody here is
proposing to call birds dinos, in
everyday life.....<< saying this i didn't want to say that we're not considering birds dinos; it would be correct to call them that way, but i dont think it would a better name than "birds".....neither worse nor better, simply a different one. FC
"Stamo a far del casino "
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