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Old 17-July-2005, 05:10 AM
Staiduk Staiduk is offline
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Originally Posted by W.F. Tomba
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Originally Posted by Staiduk
T-rex's (I hate that term)
What's wrong with T. rex? It's a pretty standard way of abbreviating a species name. Just like E. coli.
Nothing at all wrong with the term - palaeontologists use it all the time.
I'm just weird that way - you never heard the term before Jurassic Park; then after the film came out suddenly every large therapod was a 'T-rex'. LOL - just one of my quirks - I never call a helicopter a 'chopper' or a pistol a 'gun' either.
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