Re: fed up (Re: "raptor")

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:27:13 PST "Patty Ralrick"
<pattyralrick@hotmail.com> writes:
>Jim Farlow wrote:
>
>It's OK for six-year-olds, who
>don't know any better, to call predatory dinosaurs "raptors", I
>suppose, but for anybody else--and particularly professional
>paleontologists--to confuse the meaning of an established and
>honorable biological term is, IMHO, grounds for a public
>flogging.



Well, my back is pretty sore.  :-)
When I posted, it was late at night, and I didn't proof-read my post
before I hit "send" (let that be a lesson for us all).  You are correct
that the term is often misused and that this misuse should be noted when
it is found.

               <pb>







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