Re: Chez Watt Re: Common ancestor between man and ape

UC <uraniumcommittee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You wrote that "Recent" was a technical term while "recent" wasn't,
and that the difference was due to capitalization.

The capitalized version happens to be a technical term in geology, and
is therefore capitalized. It's not a technical term because it's
capitalized; It's capitalized because it's a technical term.

And in this, UC is correct.
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