--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 6/22/2003 8:54:44 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > "Tal" is German for valley. It used to be spelled "Thal",
> > and that's preserved in some place names. So either should be
> > fine, but Julia's right, one should say "tal".
> > It's like L'Hospital, the French mathematician. Current
> > texts spell his name using the "o with a hat over it" instead of
> > an "os". This is certainly easier on the students, since one
> > does not say the "s". On the other hand, HE spelled it with the
> > "os". So both are right, in various ways.
> >
> > ---David
>
> I think all this was covered in Sawyer's Hominid.
>
> The main point of my starting the thread, however, lies in the controversy
> that no one knows how many Neanderthals were, in fact, atheists.
>
Why don't we just wait till the next time we meet one and ask them whether or
not they would prefer it to be spelled with the 'th' or just the 't'? While
we are at it should be ask them for proof?
Oh now that is far to esoteric, but only becouse it's spelled wrong.
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