Re: Walking dromaeosaurs

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> > Not to mention Dutch "Kwikstaart" (Position-differing (for lack of a
better
> > translation of this old-fashioned word) tail)
>
> Ok, that word looks like the english "quick start",

Or like German Sterz, an old word used by hunters for the tails of some
animals. (German z is pronounced ts, and usually derived from t.)

> It came up with "mercury tail".

Isn't mercury sometimes called quicksilver, because it's silver in "color"
and mobile?

Mmm... dinosaurs, dinosaurs... when I'll come home from my grandparents in 2
weeks, I will (or so I hope!) translate my "paper" on the results of my
cladistic analysis of Mesozoic birds (the trees of which are already in the
archives).