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Milo -- Milonis
But, but …
It's Milum.
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>It's Milum.
David Faldage, that is your nitpickingest yet! we'll know that milum and/or themilum is in real life Milo. I'm sure he doesn't bandy about around his webconceit when he's drinking PBRs with his paleontological buds.
do you Milo? said Bob*, hopefully
*that's Bob Bakker, of course
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It's not nit-picking at all. The species name is taken from the Latin version of one's name. Milo is a Romance derived version of the Latin Milus or, as the man himself has chosen, milum.
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What about the island of Milos? Wasn't that Greek, not Roman?
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Then it would be Milou.
(By the way - congrulations, Milum! I'm slow to read the posts on the "second tier" of the forum, i.e. the ones lower on the forum index)
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Milo autem cum in senatu fuisset eo die quoad senatus est dimissus, domum venit ...Cicero's Pro T. Annio Milone Oratio (Speech on behalf of T. Annius Milo)10.28 Milo here is the nominative, subject of fuisset and venit. The genitive, as I said, is Milonis. http:// http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Cic.+Mil.+27If you wish to use his nom-de-screen, wouldn't it be themilum themili, rather than milum mili? Bingley
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his nom-de-screen
Which one, he asked anonymously? <EG>
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Wasn't Tintin's dog called Milou in French?
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Well, that'll larn me to argufy with sommun who knows more Latin than I.
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