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Re: Damin

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, February 14, 2005, 12:24
Quoting caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>:

> http://www.rickharrison.com/language/damin.html > > "...thuu is used for large sea-dwelling mammals such as dugongs and > turtles,..." > > I'd like to pick a nit. Surely the author knows that turtles are not > mammals. I can only see this as another example of believing that > the words "animal" and "mammal" are synonymous.
Possibly, it's meant to parse as " .. for {large sea-dwelling mammals such as dugongs} and [for] {turtles} ...". Andreas