>DD: As further proof of the lack of the study of English word >meanings consider; >QUOTE >Researchers are working toward an understanding of a unique >transmissible and rapidly spreading cancer that threatens the very >existence of Tasmanian devils. The disease has decimated the devil >population by nearly 90 percent in certain geographical areas of >Tasmania, and officials project that within twenty years the entire >species could become extinct. >END QUOTE I wonder if they mean nine percent. {i.e. Ninety percent of ten percent.} Nota bene; The authors of that also apparently slept through Xeno and probably flunked the Calculus. Are proof readers also a dying breed? For citation and an interesting story of a dying breed, like unto grammarians and Latin Teachers(?) see; >Tasmanian Devils' Existence Threatened By Rapidly Spreading Cancer >http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080128173735.htm To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/