--- Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
> On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 11:48 ,
> Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> > Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:
>
> [snip]
> >> But Tolkien's elves, surely, were not
> spirits or 'invisible beings' that
> >> could reveal themselves on occasion. They
> seem basically flesh & blood,
> >> tho
> >> fairer than us homines sapientes.
> >
> > Is pluralizing species names like that
> kosher?
>
> Probably not -
It's not, but I understood it as humour!
> but how can you expect one
> brought up in the classics to use
> singular 'homo sapiens' in apposition to the
> plural 'us'? :)
By doing just that! "Us Homo sapiens..."
Biological Latin ain't what we studied in school!
Padraic.
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