This is my first Featured Topic nomination, so apologies if I got the formatting wrong. I think you could make the case that Hippopotamus should be the main page of this topic. I went with Hungry Hungry Hippos, because there are scholars (I am personally agnostic) who consider Hippocampus not to be a form of
hippo. Please note that
Hippodrome, which is not GA, is actually an unrelated type of building which is used primarily for horse racing and not hippo racing. Thank you for your consideration and I look forward to working to address any objections during the course of this FTC. --
JayHenry (
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April Fools? :) What does hippo mean anyway? And why are all these hippo- articles so high-quality? Fascinating.
Wrad (
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I hope it passes.
Wrad (
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Thanks Wrad. I will quit in fury if it does not pass. I've been working on these articles for eight months. --
JayHenry (
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So "hippos" is greek for "horse"?
Wrad (
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Well, the article doesn't go into this, but Hippopotamus is a construct of
universal grammar: when people see the animal they automatically know to call it Hippopotamus. The Greeks started calling equines Hippos because
Solon noted that horses were pathetic versions of hippopotami. --
JayHenry (
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Comment – For the sake of topical completeness, you would have to add
Hippocratic oath to get my support. Otherwise, a fascinating collection. --
Arctic Gnome (
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Oppose—Criterion 1.b. "The articles have a clear similarity with each other under a well-defined topical scope." What is the similarity of content?
Zginder (
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Why, hippos, of course. But I would include
Hippodrome; there is nothing in the article saying that you can't race hippos in it. --
Arctic Gnome (
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