Without nostalgia, but ...
And speaking of evolution. Everything evolves. Before, it seems to me, eras, epochs and geological periods were always referred to by names Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, etc.. Now it seems that is no longer so. "The earliest primates, small, lemurs and tarseiros began to appear in the Paleocene, etc.." They will keep the dictionaries this change? Let's look at the Portuguese Language Dictionary of Porto Editora, the one that is in every house. 'Paleocene' does not register, for example. And then: "⇒ Eocene Eocene." '⇒ Cretaceous Cretaceous. " '⇒ Miocene Miocene'. As yet, with remission.
And this "evolution" has brought me to mind another: 'mammalian'. To distinguish between adjective and noun, advocates say.
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