[DS] Coatai

3 posts · May 28 2000 to May 28 2000

From: KH.Ranitzsch@t... (K.H.Ranitzsch)

Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 20:05:22 +0200

Subject: Re: [DS] Coatai

> Brian Bell wrote:

Makes sense. To South Americans 'tigre' is a jaguar and 'lÃ©on' is a
cougar/puma.
To Spaniards (and, I guess, Portuguese) they are properly tigers and lions.

Greetings Karl Heinz

From: KH.Ranitzsch@t... (K.H.Ranitzsch)

Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 20:05:22 +0200

Subject: Re: [DS] Coatai

> Brian Bell wrote:

Makes sense. To South Americans 'tigre' is a jaguar and 'lÃ©on' is a
cougar/puma.
To Spaniards (and, I guess, Portuguese) they are properly tigers and lions.

Greetings Karl Heinz

From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>

Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 18:17:00 -0400

Subject: Re: [DS] Coatai

> Makes sense. To South Americans 'tigre' is a jaguar and 'lÃ©on'
is a
> cougar/puma.

On the other hand, with 170 million Brazilians and 10 million Portuguese,
there may be some argument as to which one decides what is "proper"...