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Re: Planet of the New Papers

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Subject: Re: Planet of the New Papers
From: Jeff Hecht <jeff@jeffhecht.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:15:39 -0400
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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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