Re: basic question about integrators in a loop (circle test)

Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:

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Oxen are usually castrated males.

 
Some may be castrated males but, according to my dictionary they are
used for draft, for milk or for meat.

 
The dictionaries I've consulted concentrated on the draft animal aspect.
Ignorant people do use words on the basis of their idiosyncratic
understanding of what they mean, but the intelligent ignorant do
generally learn to do better.

I am amazed that I managed to work in animal husbandry for 30 years and
obtain a degree in biology without your helpful advice to enlighten my
ignorance.
 

Unless you are going to tell me
you have succesfully milked a bull,  "Stupid Cow" makes sense.

 
Since I've never been in the bovine artificial insemination business, I
can't ever claim to have "milked" a bull.

Well I have been in that business and I can assure you that the 'milk'
you get from a bull is not something you would want to waste on your
cornflakes, there are more productive places to put it (and it is very
expensive to buy, if the bull is of good repute).  I have no reason to
doubt that the milk referred to in the dictionary confirms the common
existence of oxen cows.



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