SC - Pigs revisited-long
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Sat Nov 21 04:58:37 PST 1998
> LrdRas at aol.com writes:
>
> > is unique.I do
> > not, however, think he meant it to be viewed as sensational. The fact
> that
> > the
> > word he used is 'pig' and not 'hog' is what I find significant. He was
> not
> > stating that hogs that large were unsual. He was clearly staing that he
>
> > found
> > the story of a 'pig' that large unusual. I agree with him.
>
> Okay, I'm teachable. What is the difference between a "hog" and a "pig"?
> I was taught as a young city girl marrying into a farm family that a pig
> was
> under 100 lbs., and a hog was over.
>
> Mordonna
>
Thinking about this, I would first question the quality of the translation
and second I would wonder if Platina is trying to describe a species
differentiation without having the proper vocabulary to do so.
When did we start differentiating between a pig and a hog by the weight of
the animal?
Bear
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