Just 2 minor notes on realia (was: A little more on Iroquoian)

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Thu Aug 14 14:50:14 UTC 2003


On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Koontz John E wrote:
> By way of background, I beli[e]ve taxonomists have waffled over the
> years (even the last 50 years) over whether to classify all (or most)
> felidae in one large genus Felis, or in several ...  The innocent
> linguist, cons[u]lting reference works from a variety of sources and
> times is easily caught unawares.

It occurred to me that this could be misread - "innocent linguist" refers
not to Heike, who seems to be a cat authority, but to the rest of us.

JEK



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