On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro@gmail.com
wrote:
Lion in a more amusing coinage was to Michael "a noble deer" ("jalopeura"), going with the color of the pelt despite the fact that lions are hardly ruminants.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Not to mention the cats not cattle thing. A pride versus a herd is a world of difference in the realm of collective connotation.