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Letter: Letter

Published 19 June 2004

From G. Carsaniga

Your Latin is even more anomalous than a humped zebra. The tag is “animal post coitum triste”. A correct variant, but still obscure in its connection to a zebra crossing, or a crossing zebra, would be: “Omne animal triste”, every animal is sad.

Hove, Sussex, UK

Issue no. 2452 published 19 June 2004

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