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Re: Birds in other languages... (was Re: BCF)

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Subject: Re: Birds in other languages... (was Re: BCF)
From: "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 21:47:06 +0200
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> >   The entire world has a majority concept of what birds, or vögeln,
> >ptitsi, ornithoi, etc., are... and sauropods frankly do not cut the cake.
>
> "Ptitsi" and "ornithoi" are what languages?  Just curious...

Russian (I could waffle for several minutes on the transcription...) and
Greek, respectively. The German version is not vögeln but Vögel... the
former is a verb from northern Germany that means, ermp, erm, er, vertical
gene transfer. :o)

References:
- Birds in other languages... (was Re: BCF)
  - From: "Nicholas Gardner" <n_gardner637@hotmail.com>

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