Q: "lanechtskipt"

[Joel S. Berson]

Thanks, Jon.  Just as I need to use a word three times to make it
mine, I need approbation twice to believe it.

:-)

By the way, the historian whose manuscript I am reading and who
quotes the "lanechtskipt" text has accepted my speculation.


At 11/13/2013 09:52 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>It's 2013, Joel. "Cool" is acceptably formal. I might add "Sweet!" however.
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>JL
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>On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> wrote:
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> > On 11/13/13 12:01 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> > >> Why can't "black & whight bare" be a panda bear?
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> > >> >---Amy West
> > > I do not know anyone who writes about exotic animals in America who
> > > mentions a panda bear being in Boston in 1735.
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> > > Wikipedia, "Giant panda: / Western discovery":  "The West first
> > > learned of the giant panda on 11 March 1869, when the French
> > > missionary Armand David[42] received a skin from a hunter. The first
> > > Westerner known to have seen a living giant panda is the German
> > > zoologist Hugo Weigold, who purchased a cub in 1916. Kermit and
> > > Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., became the first Westerners to shoot a
> > > panda, on an expedition funded by the Field Museum of Natural History
> > > in the 1920s. In 1936, Ruth Harkness became the first Westerner to
> > > bring back a live giant panda, a cub named Su Lin[55] which went to
> > > live at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago."
> > Fair enough. How about a moon bear? It has a white patch on its neck/chest.
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