Dwimordene: Do you suppose that we here in Middle-earth lack distinct commonplace terms and specialist terms for given phenomena? Seeing as ‘egg-laying’ is evidently an acceptable translation of the vernacular, I fail to see how ‘oviparous’ is unacceptable to translate an educated person’s speech. Pedantically, Saruman
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Date: 2012-07-19 10:50 pm (UTC)Do you suppose that we here in Middle-earth lack distinct commonplace terms and specialist terms for given phenomena? Seeing as ‘egg-laying’ is evidently an acceptable translation of the vernacular, I fail to see how ‘oviparous’ is unacceptable to translate an educated person’s speech.
Pedantically,
Saruman
(Saruman, be polite or I’ll write another cute companion animal for you…)