At 10:55 PM 9/10/2008, Michael Sullivan wrote... > >From a novice point of view(I couldn't resist)....See if you see the >correlation. I raise ducks and chickens(not in my Vanagon-Vanagon >Content), >but if I am on my Duck forum I say 'Drake' for a male duck and on the >Chicken forum, it would be Rooster. Na. It's more like someone goes into a gardening list and asks about growing "red, fruity things." Some people start talking about tomatoes, someone else starts talking about apples and cherries. Soon, there's an argument over whether "red, fruity things" grow on trees or bushes. Then someone steps in, claims to have been a dirt farmer since the womb, and says that he looked it up, and what those tree growing people call "red, fruity things," aren't, and he and every farmer he knows has always called tomatoes "red, fruity things," and he's never used the book learnt technical name of tomato. |
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