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To: WildHorseCrash
"'sexless organisms' ... If you mean asexual"

A little language lesson. Often what the "a" in front of terms is derived from latin -- many times it means "absense", less frequently it means "to". (Ad infinitum). In "asexual" it means "absent of sex", or "sexless".

1,480 posted on 02/02/2005 10:52:23 AM PST by bvw
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To: bvw
"'sexless organisms' ... If you mean asexual" A little language lesson. Often what the "a" in front of terms is derived from latin -- many times it means "absense", less frequently it means "to". (Ad infinitum). In "asexual" it means "absent of sex", or "sexless".

(And when "jack" is in front of "ass" is usually means a creationist or an IDer...) Given the general incomprehensibility of much of your post, I figured that English was a second language to you. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, and figured that perhaps you didn't realize that here in the English-speaking world, when referring to organisms that reproduce without sex, the term "asexual" is used and not the word "sexless."

1,513 posted on 02/02/2005 11:52:30 AM PST by WildHorseCrash
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