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>Hola:
>Common names, the tower of Babel; scientific names, the mini-tower of
>Babel, but
>we are working on it.
>Emilio
>
>(if the human being began to put names to things 100.000 years ago, and
>if we think in the number of synonyms we have in only 200 years, it is a
>wonder the small number of synonyms that exist in the popular names;
>what our ancestors forgot was to put the author's name in them:
>I like a lot pt'dm'a twre@pruuu retw', -92.345; -92.345 is the year;
>retw' was an homo erectus very brilliant)
>
>
 
You're starting to scare me, Emilio.
 
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