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Re:For Zelda-playing daughter, Dad gives Link a sex change by Tipzntrix on Thursday November 08, 2012 @05:24PM (#4760222)
Interesting. That also seems to back up my point that languages just make words sound masculine or feminine, even if not explicitly defined like in the Romantic languages (French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, others of similar origin). The fact that they are in a footrace seems to suggest they were lifted from their original myths though.
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Re:For Zelda-playing daughter, Dad gives Link a sex change by wazoox on Thursday November 08, 2012 @06:15PM (#4760417)
The race between the tortoise and Achilles (or sometimes Achilles and the arrow) is the common illustration of the best known Zeno's paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenos_paradoxes
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