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Bats just lack class.<br>
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--David T<br>
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Fritz Goerling wrote:
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  <p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">With a group of
Africans from a number of countries</font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font
 face="Arial">to whom</font></span></p>
  <p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">I am teaching
semantics</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial"> for a
couple of weeks</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">,</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">I tested</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">today</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"> </span></p>
  <p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">what they
considered to be</font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">a</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">prototypical bird.</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">Two</font></span><span lang="en-us">
  <font face="Arial">participants</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span
 lang="en-us"> </span></p>
  <p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">answered</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">“</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font
 face="Arial">a sparrow</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font
 face="Arial">”</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">
like most Westeners would do</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font
 face="Arial">. It was</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span
 lang="en-us"> </span></p>
  <p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">interesting to</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"><font face="Arial"> hear from those who did not know</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">the sparrow</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"> </span></p>
  <p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">nor choose</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"><font face="Arial"> it.</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
  <p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">One said</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">“</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font
 face="Arial">little bird from the rain-forest</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">”</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font
 face="Arial">, another</font></span></p>
  <p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">one</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">“</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font
 face="Arial">raven</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">”</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">, another one</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">“</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font
 face="Arial">hawk.</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">”</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">While all
fulfilled the criteria</font></span></p>
  <p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">for</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">“</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font
 face="Arial">birdiness</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font
 face="Arial">”</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial"> by
having a beak,</font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">feathers</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">, wings to fly,</font></span></p>
  <p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">laying eggs,
the reasons for th</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">eir
choice were cultural</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">,</font></span></p>
  <p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">especially</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">“</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font
 face="Arial">commonness.</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font
 face="Arial">”</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span
 lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">Of course, bats were not considered</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"> </span></p>
  <p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">by anyone as a
bird,</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font
 face="Arial">as</font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">they
are</font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">mammal</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">s</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font
 face="Arial"> and lack most criteria</font></span><span lang="en-us"> </span></p>
  <p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">of a</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">“</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font
 face="Arial">bird.</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">”</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">One
participant said a bat is called in his culture</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">“</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">who is</font></span></p>
  <p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">in no
class/category.</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">”</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"><font face="Arial"> That adds another interesting name to
the</font></span></p>
  <p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">many very
different names for bats in different languages already</font></span></p>
  <p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">mentioned on
this list (under the thread</font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font
 face="Arial">“</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">What
is a bat?</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">”</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">).</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
  <p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">Fritz Goerling</font></span><span
 lang="en-us"></span></p>

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