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Re: BRONTOSAURUS FOREVER!
In a message dated 6/20/02 6:32:34 PM EST, mightyodinn@yahoo.com writes:
<< You just misapplied it yourself. By that logic, "dinosaur workers" should
be
"dinosaurian workers". "Dinosaur workers" would mean those working on
_Dinosaurus_, which is a junior synonym of _Rhopalodon_ (a dinocephalian, not
even a member of _Dinosauria_). >>
Well, not quite. "Dinosaurian workers" is ambiguous, because "dinosaurian"
could be an adjective describing the workers as being dinosaurians. Perhaps I
should have said, "Those who work on dinosaurians."