Re: What is ammonium zincate

From: Uncle Al (UncleAl0_at_hate.spam.net)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:08:15 -0800

farooq_w@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> SNUMBER6 wrote:
> > >From: "Qi Wang" wang_iq@hotmail.com
> >
> > >biliary acids from hog biles,
> >
> > Since Farooq gave you good information ... I can comment ..
> >
> > Why did this make me think of the previous President of the US ...
> and his
> > Senator wife ... ???
>
> Your post forced me to look up the meaning of hog! So many names for
> the same animal.

English as a language has two tiers based on class. The lower classes
spoke regulation English (and cleaned it up mightily by losing noun
gender, a lot of superfluous declensions, and various elegant goo and
dribbles). English nobility spoke French. Thus it is that primitive
agriculture terms generally have original short gutteral names and
added elegant French-sourced names when stuff moves up the class
ladder.

English is a huge language, some 250,000 words in basic vocabuary and
perhaps as many added in technical vocabularies. It is capable of
surgical precison and subtle killing insult (e.g., damnation by faint
praise). It is a shame that much of the American population has use
of perhaps 10,000 words or fewer (not "less"). 

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