Understood. This is more or less the same in Russian if one were to translate both words literally... Thanks!
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes. Linguistically crows speak crow, and ravens speak raven. > > A raven is a type of crow. The word crow broadly speaking describes the > genus, whereas the word raven describes a species of crow. Very roughly > speaking, that is. Other types of crow are rooks, carrion crows, jackdaws, > choughs, maybe magpies? > > http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/families/crows.aspx > > Bob -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
