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The map follows as soon as possible; unfortunately upload was disabled when I tried it yesterday. -- Torsten Bronger 06:21, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Removed a sentence about the constellation being 163,000 light years from Earth. It's incorrect because constellations don't have distances from Earth, only the individual stars. -- B.d.mills ( Talk) 03:29, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
Dorado (Latin for Swordfish) is a southern constellation.
Whatever "dorado" is intended to mean, it is most certainly not the Latin for swordfish. No such word exists in Latin, and swordfish is called either "xiphias" or just "gladius." My assumption would be that this is simply the spanish name for mahi-mahi (as noted in the other uses section). -- Iustinus 23:02, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Dorado is indeed the spanish word for mahi-mahi. The "golden" connotation (d'or) is because the skin turns a golden colour when the fish is taken out of the water (see the mahi-mahi article). Jules Verne mentions the dorado by that name in "25000 Leagues under the sea"; in his time it was the correct English word for the fish in question, just like camelopard (another constellation) was the legitimate word for giraffe. Rursus, your scutum example and discussion is good, but missing one item. The original name WAS 'Scutum Sobielski', which was then simply shortened in translation to 'scutum'. There is nothing inexplicable about it! Fornax is another example. Old_Wombat ( talk) 09:54, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Normally I'll immediatelly remove cleanup or merger requests that lack motivation on the talk page, but for this single occasion I'm inclined to agree: there's a list of red links in the article. That list must be cleaned – but ... cleanup and merger requests without motivation is littering by itself. Rursus 15:18, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
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The map follows as soon as possible; unfortunately upload was disabled when I tried it yesterday. -- Torsten Bronger 06:21, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Removed a sentence about the constellation being 163,000 light years from Earth. It's incorrect because constellations don't have distances from Earth, only the individual stars. -- B.d.mills ( Talk) 03:29, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
Dorado (Latin for Swordfish) is a southern constellation.
Whatever "dorado" is intended to mean, it is most certainly not the Latin for swordfish. No such word exists in Latin, and swordfish is called either "xiphias" or just "gladius." My assumption would be that this is simply the spanish name for mahi-mahi (as noted in the other uses section). -- Iustinus 23:02, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Dorado is indeed the spanish word for mahi-mahi. The "golden" connotation (d'or) is because the skin turns a golden colour when the fish is taken out of the water (see the mahi-mahi article). Jules Verne mentions the dorado by that name in "25000 Leagues under the sea"; in his time it was the correct English word for the fish in question, just like camelopard (another constellation) was the legitimate word for giraffe. Rursus, your scutum example and discussion is good, but missing one item. The original name WAS 'Scutum Sobielski', which was then simply shortened in translation to 'scutum'. There is nothing inexplicable about it! Fornax is another example. Old_Wombat ( talk) 09:54, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Normally I'll immediatelly remove cleanup or merger requests that lack motivation on the talk page, but for this single occasion I'm inclined to agree: there's a list of red links in the article. That list must be cleaned – but ... cleanup and merger requests without motivation is littering by itself. Rursus 15:18, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
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