OT (was Re: Monkey grammar)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/14/2009 02:34 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
>(Sigh.) I can never read the word "tamarins" without being sidetracked to
>tamarinDs, which are a fruit. The monkeys are undoubtedly smarter, but AFAIC
>the fruit are better eatin'.

Bucky, of "Get Fuzzy", would disagree.

Joel

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>On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > Note that it's monkeys (tamarins), not apes, which have greater
> > language abilities.

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