Would you manage to write the same without using Latin terms? In fact it never passed through my head that English is a Romance Language. But Latin is part of the western culture whether we like it or not, and in a large measure taps in the same fountain as French and Italian. Note that the German language was not as influenced by Latin as the English. It is not a Romance language, but it is the only highly "latinized" Germanic language. We could say (here come the linguists flamming on me...) that it is a Germanic language of "second order". What I mean is that I agree with you. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]







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Well, OK then! [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Wait a minute, what happened to that quotation? Where'd all the bolds come from?

While we're on the subject of pronunciations, here are two favorite stars:

Zubenelgenubi and Zubeneshamali

These are Arabic names that mean Southern claw and Northern claw. Someone mentioned here once that they named two cats after these stars. Has anyone here viewed them through a telescope? (The stars, not the kitties.)

Chip

"Why haven't I've seen this all along!?" - Dr. Morbius from Forbidden Planet



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Mentioned earlier. Did they call both cats Zub? I always thought that was a nickname for EliZUBeth.

I don't think those were the final choices for the felines in question. I remember many names were thrown about, and the two "Zubens" got a lot of discussion, but the final names were something different. I can't remember the actual final choices. but I remember that they weren't named in any "twin" like fashion (Castor/Pollux, etc.). (I think one of them was a Jovian moon, but I'm not sure.)

I posted once with my opinion that Zubenelgenubi and Zubeneshamali would have made good names, especially since chopping them down to Genubi and Shamali would make them a bit easier for daily use.

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...And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped. --Sir Bedevere

Sure. Jenny and Molly. That's nice.

I dunno about being called the "northern claw" and the "southern claw", though. They were once part of scorpius, heh? Where was Libra, back then, then?