Re: CHAT: Worse Greek 102 (was: Bad Latin 101)
| From: | Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 5, 2001, 6:31 |
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, John Cowan wrote:
> > The Latin plural is penes. But even medical professionals seldom find
> > occasion to use that. (Pt pres w 2 infl penes... not too likely).
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> Biologists do, though. Male marsupials have a pair of hemipenes.
Once saw a picture of a guy with two penes. It was less than attractive.
He claimed both operated. They actually looked somewhat like set of
hemipenes. I wonder if he had some sort of marsupial atavism?
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