Re: smallest ANCIENT non-bird dinosaur - was what I was asking

[Andreas Johansson <andreasj@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:30 PM, T. Michael Keesey <keesey@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
>  I'm suddenly reminded that the phenomenon extends to other types of
>  technical term as well. Where English has "the Lower Cretaceous",
>  German has "die Unterkreide" -- "the underchalk".

Something I find interesting here is that English consistently uses
adjectives (eg. "the Cretaceous") while German and Swedish use nouns
(_die Kreide_, _krita_, resp.) for segments of geological time. What
do other languages do?



-- 
Andreas Johansson

Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?