dmz makes no “serious” anything here. He is a forever-child that is incapable of grasping reality that firmly.
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I’m crushed. But even so, are the words dinosaur and dragon synonymous in your world?
Yes, in terms of historic writings, dragons in history are dinosaurs in modern parlance. There are also other words that could be equated, in various circumstances, as in the case of an obvious T-Rex in Beowulf being given a name.
Such instances are of course necessarily to be examined in context.