If they didn’t want to talk about spiders by name, maybe you could have talked about dehydrated cephalopods?
cartomancersays
I like to consider the additional e as a kind of grammatical augment, used to denote a past tense version of the name. Like in ancient Greek or Sanskrit verbs.
Callinectessays
PZ, what’s your policy on receiving unsolicited spider eggs from other countries in the mail?
If they didn’t want to talk about spiders by name, maybe you could have talked about dehydrated cephalopods?
I like to consider the additional e as a kind of grammatical augment, used to denote a past tense version of the name. Like in ancient Greek or Sanskrit verbs.
PZ, what’s your policy on receiving unsolicited spider eggs from other countries in the mail?