Guest guest Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 Graham said > Could it be perhaps be a typo for " coughing " ? Maybe, but in this case, it's a very big one. Fire the secretary :-)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 Certainly not for me. Not their skin, but the ground (what I called the soil) Re: Ploughing rats > Dear Colleagues, > > Thank you for your replies. Having read your comments, may I come up > with a wild guess? Can ploughing mean " scratching their skin " ? > > > > > > URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/medical_translation > > In case of any problem with this list, you can reach the moderator at cgtradmed@.... > The FAQs of our list are available at : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/medical_translation/files/M_T-FAQS.doc > > To unsubscribe, please send an *empty* message to > medical_translation-UNSUBSCRIBE > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 Dear Colleagues, Thank you for your replies. Having read your comments, may I come up with a wild guess? Can ploughing mean " scratching their skin " ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 On 19 Dec 2007 at 11:26, Sosnovsky wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Thank you for your replies. Having read your comments, may I come up > with a wild guess? Can ploughing mean " scratching their skin " ? not by any author who cares about the clarity of his or her expression. what's the native language of the author? it is possible a non-native speaker took plough from a thesaurus or dictionary as a synonym for dig, as Astrid suggests. but it's all wild guessing. that's as probably but not more so than a typo for coughing. jo ann > > > > > URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/medical_translation > > In case of any problem with this list, you can reach the moderator at cgtradmed@.... > The FAQs of our list are available at : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/medical_translation/files/M_T-FAQS.doc > > To unsubscribe, please send an *empty* message to > medical_translation-UNSUBSCRIBE > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 Hi Jo Ann and , >>Thank you for your replies. Having read your comments, may I come up >>with a wild guess? Can ploughing mean " scratching their skin " ? >> No. >not by any author who cares about the clarity >of his or her expression. what's the native >language of the author? > >it is possible a non-native speaker took >plough from a thesaurus or dictionary as a >synonym for dig, as Astrid suggests. but it's >all wild guessing. that's as probably but not >more so than a typo for coughing. > That sound plausible. Normally rodents are not described as " digging " either, but pawing, burrowing or tunnelling as a toxicity response... I'd check with the client. Regards, la Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 > > , > > > > As for the scent-marking theory I am not sure if such explanation may apply > here. Usually, scent-marking is associated with urination or defecation, and Hi Astrid, There is such a form of behavior in some dogs. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Babyrous a_babyrussa.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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