End of ADS-L Digest - 23 Aug 1997 to 24 Aug 1997
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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 24 Aug 1997 to 25 Aug 1997
There are 15 messages totalling 397 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. Pyrin vs. Marenostrin (new words duel!) (2)
 2. Quebec English
 3. Money Talks (movie title) (2)
 4. plea for advice (2)
 5. Wash. Post article on DARE (2)
 6. squires (3)
 7. Esquire
 8. "Gay Head" in Scholastic Magazine
 9. Web Site?

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Date:  Mon, 25 Aug 1997 00:39:20 -0400
From:  Ron Butters <RonButters[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Pyrin vs. Marenostrin (new words duel!)

B. Popik writes:
> But did anyone--ANYONE--consider
>that Latin and Greek MIGHT be considered
>inappropriate for Jews, Arabs, Turks
>and Armenians?

Well, but, scientific words the world over are coined from Latin and Greek
roots--this is sort of the international language of science, right? Anyway,
it seems to me that Latin (or even ancient Greek) is/are far more neutral
than, say, selecting a Turkish word to describe the ancestors of an Armenian,
or selecting a Hebrew word to describe the ancestors of an Arab (or vice
versa).

Since Adam and Eve spoke Dutch, obviously a Dutch word would be best.