Re: Country names
From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
Date: | Friday, May 9, 2003, 14:41 |
>>Tasmania - thylacine, tasmanian devil
>
>The problems with that being that Tasmania isn't a country and that
>tassie tigers (a.k.a. thylacines) are probably extinct, but maybe not,
>and maybe clonable, but only with enough money. If you're gonna start
>doing states, you'll have fun trying to find distinct animals for all of
>America's states, let alone those French equivalents whose name I've
>forgotten.
True but
1. others besides me had listed Florida, Maine & Kentucky.
2. the dodo (extinct) was suggested by someone for Muaritus.
3. the dragon (mythical) was suggested by someone for China.
So, Jeffry: mythical? extinct? nations? land masses? geologically homogenous
regions?
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