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Bonnie Taylor-Blake b.taylorblake at GMAIL.COM
Mon Oct 20 21:42:30 UTC 2014


On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 4:56 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

> The remarkable arachnid was discovered when the intrepid etymologist
> noticed faintly visible words spelled out in the tenuous filaments of
> an enormous delicate web. "My linguistic training was vital. It
> allowed me to recognize this anomalous verbal pattern," said the
> swashbuckling academic adventurer. Scientists are now working
> intensely attempting to decipher the spidery language.

Didn't I see this already in "Indo-European Jones and the Web of Language"?

-- Bonnie

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