More humorous mil. acros.

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Nov 6 14:29:42 UTC 2006


For those who are not familiar with Mark, it should be pointed out
that  he is a Vietnam vet. "This man has had experience."

-Wilson

-Wilson

On 11/5/06, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> On 11/5/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > There's a chigger whose scientific monicker is _Tribicula fujigmo_.  For details,
> > as well as other bizarre Linnaean names (including the fly _Phthiria relativitae_),
> > see [http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~heraty/menke.html].
>
> See also Mark Liberman's post on Language Log:
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> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002833.html
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>
> --Ben Zimmer
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