To: Doctor Stochastic
If you're going to be picky, it's the difference between:
1. Fossil of first chimp, or
2. First fossil of chimp.
Gotta get that adjective
first positioned next to its noun, with no room for misinterpretation.
33 posted on
08/31/2005 12:50:27 PM PDT by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
To: PatrickHenry; Doctor Stochastic
I spit on and otherwise deride your nit-picking abilities.
1. Fossil of first chimp, or
2. First fossil of chimp.
Neither. It is unlikely that this specimen was the first chimp, or the first chimp to be fossilized, but it is the first fossilized chimp to be found. Door number 3, Monty:
3. First discovery of a fossilized chimp.
38 posted on
08/31/2005 12:57:36 PM PDT by
general_re
("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
To: PatrickHenry
Well, it's only an adverb.
Only, well, it's an adverb.
It's only a well adverb.
It's only an adverb well.
Only, it's an adverb well.
Only, it's a well adverb.
39 posted on
08/31/2005 12:59:06 PM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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