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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Subject: Re: Horses (was: Etruscans)
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Brian M. Scott wrote:

> >[P's wild horse and 2 species of asses removed]
>                                   ^^^^^
> More, more!
> 
> (I'm sorry, but one gets few opportunities as golden as this!)

Believe me, it gets better.  The two species in question are
*Equus asinus*, the true ass, and *Equus hemionus*,
the onager, or Asiatic half-ass.

What could be better?

ObSciLang:  For mystified non-North-Americans, the
words "ass" and "arse" (buttocks) are homophonous in
the U.S. and Canada, and are normally spelled the same
way, namely "ass".

-- 
John Cowan						cowan@ccil.org
			e'osai ko sarji la lojban
