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Re: What words describe the Lego elements?
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Sat, 5 Feb 2000 17:35:27 GMT
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In lugnet.db.brictionary, Larry Pieniazek writes:
1 - or if you are a creationist, they classify successfully AS IF they
were related, whether they actually are or not can be considered by you
to be an open question without distracting from the success of A
Linnaeus's(2) work at organising fauna and flora.

2 - no doubt I incorrectly spelled the poor man's name...

Nope, "Linnaeus" is spelled correctly.  However if the "A" above refers
to his first name that's wrong, his first name is Carolus.  If not,
nevermind.

-Chris



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  Re: What words describe the Lego elements?
 
(...) It was... 2 letters off is less than 10% margin of error, which is good enough when you're estimating. :-) Are you sure there isn't an umlaut or AE joined or something in his last name? :-) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)

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(...) Respectfully disagree. Animals are all related (1), and the nomenclature, driven by the Linnaeus classification system, reflects that relationship. Lego elements, except in limited cases, are not related to each other by derivation or (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)

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