 calvoiper
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Belvedere Tiburon, CA | reply to Titus Pullo
So others don't have to look it up like I did.... "Coprophagous" means "dung eating."
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 Titus PulloI came, I saw, I slept
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| said by calvoiper:"Coprophagous" means "dung eating." calvoiper And is where cursory exposure to Latin pays dividends (pun intended). Copro: feces; phagous: eating.
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Belvedere Tiburon, CA | I suffered through a high school "cursory exposure to Latin," but my school was so repressed that the word for "dung" would never have been discussed.
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Bethel, CT | reply to Titus Pullo
said by Titus Pullo:And is where cursory exposure to Latin pays dividends (pun intended). Copro: feces; phagous: eating. It's Greek, actually, but a wonderful word none-the-less!
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| said by ctgreybeard:said by Titus Pullo:And is where cursory exposure to Latin pays dividends (pun intended). Copro: feces; phagous: eating. It's Greek, actually, but a wonderful word none-the-less! Wow, I had no idea the word would generate such, uh, interest -
It's all Greek to me! It stuck in my mind from studying Latin roots.
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