From: Jeff Hecht <jeff@jeffhecht.com>
Reply-To: jeff@jeffhecht.com
To: keenir@hotmail.com, mickey_mortimer111@msn.com, dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Planet of the New Papers
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:15:39 -0400
At 1:06 AM +0000 8/21/07, Anthony Docimo wrote:
>
>*Tyrannosaurus rex* is *Tyrannosaurus rex* in English and Chinese.
>
>...and undoubtedly in Xhosa and Khmer too. ;)
>
But in French it comes out "Rex de Tyrannosaurus", according to my
computer. And I really wonder what it would look like if transliterated
into Chinese characters.
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