Re: Call for comments from IG: STEM survey first draft

At the agricultural fairs I have attended in the US, they also refer to 
Guinea Pigs as "Caveys" so it appears there is a common root word with 
the French "Cobaye."


On 1/20/15 10:11 AM, Peter Krautzberger wrote:
> Well, at least there's Cobaye 
> <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobaye>? In German, we speak of 
> "Versuchskaninchen" ("experiment-bunny").
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> Peter.
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> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Thierry MICHEL <tmichel@w3.org 
> <mailto:tmichel@w3.org>> wrote:
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>     On 20/01/2015 15:04, Ivan Herman wrote:
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>             On 20 Jan 2015, at 14:59 , Thierry MICHEL <tmichel@w3.org
>             <mailto:tmichel@w3.org>> wrote:
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>             On 20/01/2015 14:19, Peter Krautzberger wrote:
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>                     I am not sure I understand who are the pigs.
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>                 We (the TF) had decided to do a test run with a small
>                 number of test
>                 subjects; this found approval on a regular IG call later.
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>                 The goal will be to reduce our inevitable blind spots
>                 before releasing
>                 it to the wider group of people. The data from these
>                 test subjects would
>                 not enter the survey (though they would be able to
>                 take part in the
>                 final survey as well).
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>             Yes I  am aware of that resolution, I couldn't (and don't)
>             understand why they are called pigs.
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>         Thierry,
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>         "guinea pig" is an English expression. It is a name of an animal:
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>         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_pig
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>         in contrast google translate, it is 'cochon d'inde' in Frence.
>         And it is also used as an expression for "cobaye".
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>     sorry but I was not aware of this english meaning and in France
>     you would not want to be called a pig nor a guinea pig ;-)
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>     in French Guinea pig is 'cochon d'inde', which actually means pigs
>     of America, because when Christopher Columbus discovered America
>     he thought it was India.
>     So some animals like turkey (dinde, cochon d'inde, dindon) and
>     indians carry that indian spell.
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>     Thierry
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>         Ivan
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