[Taxacom] orthographic contamination

[Frederick W. Schueler]

On 4/3/2011 12:40 PM, Richard Zander wrote:
> Yes, yes, I mean mana. Mana. I shall use mana several times today and gain mana.

* but manna, as an unexpectedly divinely delivered sweetish dietary 
supplement, wasn't really that far off from a possible meaning.

fred.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Read [mailto:gread at actrix.gen.nz]
> Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 1:02 AM
> To: TAXACOM
> Cc: Richard Zander
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] DNA contamination
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> ".. in which case you intuit that DNA has more manna"
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> Since you've used Manna before recently in a similar context (Mar 28: "For
> Stuessy, the dendrogram still has manna") I suspect a slip of the brain
> for Mana, the handy Polynesian-origin word commonly used for measuring a
> person's (high) standing and prestige in the community. I only know Manna
> as mythical nourishment for Iraelites in Exodus, and perhaps at a stretch
> the sap of Fraxinus ornus.
>
> Mana - A strength, potency or force, also in modern times used in gaming
> as units of magical power.
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> Geoff
>
>>>> On 3/04/2011 at 4:44 a.m., "Richard Zander"<Richard.Zander at mobot.org>
> wrote:
>> Molecular data support ALL trees, just some more than others. They cannot
>> falsify morphological results. If morphological results are so certain they
>> falsify the probabilistic molecular tree, then a suboptimal molecular
> tree is
>> required so both fit theory (unless you are theory‑free, in which
> case you
>> intuit that DNA has more manna). [...]
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