From: Dana Shilling dshilling@worldnet.att.net
Are Auronar Homo auronae or Homo sapiens var. auronae?
How badly do you want Cally to have Avon's love-child?
Though making the Auronar a separate species wouldn't rule out the possibility, just make it likely that any progeny were sterile.
Why does fanfic so frequently refer to the 'Auronae' when Cally quite clearly says 'Auronar' in Time Squad?
(Esperanto uses the -ar suffix for collective nouns).
Neil
Neil Faulkner wrote:
Why does fanfic so frequently refer to the 'Auronae' when Cally quite clearly says 'Auronar' in Time Squad?
That argument would leave me wondering why a British friend of mine used to frequently ask for a glass of warter. I don't trust r's at the end of unfamiliar words when the speaker is British, especially when sometimes you hear them, sometimes you don't.
Mistral
----- Original Message ----- From: Mistral mistral@centurytel.net
Neil Faulkner wrote:
Why does fanfic so frequently refer to the 'Auronae' when Cally quite clearly says 'Auronar' in Time Squad?
That argument would leave me wondering why a British friend of mine used to frequently ask for a glass of warter. I don't trust r's at the end of unfamiliar words when the speaker is British, especially when sometimes you hear them, sometimes you don't.
Yes, but in British English (of the sort you're speaking of-- apologies to all these Westerners, Scots, Irish...), the suffix "-ae" is actually pronounced more like "eye"-- for the mispronunciation to work, you'd have to be spelling it "Aurona."
George Mikes, the late Hungarian/English humourist, who wrote his most famous books around the end of WWII, speculated that for the British, Rs are rationed, and they find that when they use them indiscriminately in the middles of words, they don't have enough for the ends...
Ever the pedant,
Fiona
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Neil asked:
How badly do you want Cally to have Avon's love-child?
Not at all--I don't think either would be a very good parent and it's not a good environment for bringing up children.
Though making the Auronar a separate species wouldn't rule out the possibility, just make it likely that any progeny were sterile.
Why does fanfic so frequently refer to the 'Auronae' when Cally quite clearly says 'Auronar' in Time Squad?
To the best of my knowledge, "Auronar" is a plural noun, "auronae" (like "sapiens" in a species name) is an adjective.
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From: Dana Shilling dshilling@worldnet.att.net
To the best of my knowledge, "Auronar" is a plural noun, "auronae" (like "sapiens" in a species name) is an adjective.
Thinking about the various Linnaean names that I know (probably thousands if I bothered to add them all up), I can't offhand think of a single specific name ending in -ae. It tends to be used for families (-idae) and subfamilies (-inae), not species. More likely names for the Auronar would perhaps be Homo aurono (aurona would sound better, but doesn't agree with Homo), H. auronii (though the -ii usually comes after whoever discovered a species), or H.auronensis.
Though if Cally is a typical member of her species then they might Homo anorectis. Or Homo viciapalus (the closest I can get to 'beanpole' in Latin).
Neil
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