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From: "Yvan Hall" <a@b.com>
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Subject: Re: Work akin to "anachronism"?
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 10:13:11 -0800
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"Alain Dekker" <abdekker@NOSPAM.fsmail.net> wrote in message
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> I'm not sure how to ask this question, but you know how you watch a movie
> about, say, the Ancient Eqyptians and one of the characters is wearing a
> wristwatch. There's a word for that faux pas, which is, I think
> "anachronism".
>
> My question is, say you were watching a movie about polar bears and they
> showed you, or talked about, polar bears vaching and eating Emporer
> penguins.
>
> Now polar bears are strictly North Pole and Emporer penguins are strictly
> South Pole. This cannot happen.
>
> What is the term, if there is one, for this, please?
>
> Thanks,
> Alain
>
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