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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"><FONT FACE="Arial"></FONT></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"><FONT FACE="Arial"></FONT></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"><FONT FACE="Arial"></FONT></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"><FONT FACE="Arial"></FONT></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"><FONT FACE="Arial"></FONT></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"><FONT FACE="Arial"></FONT></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"><FONT FACE="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Arial">One participant said a bat is called in his culture</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial"></FONT></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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