[Ads-l] A linguistic lesson in diversity and tolerance

[Laurence Horn]

> On Sep 5, 2016, at 11:09 AM, Margaret E. Winters <mewinters at WAYNE.EDU> wrote:
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> The version we used to tell (I started my career teaching French) was a cat and a dog -- still a good story!
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In fact I remember buying a notebook (I believe on the Boul' Mich' in Paris in the early 1960s) whose inside cover had a cartoon depicting a cat and dog and a corresponding caption that translates as "It pays to learn a new language", although I forget whether the cat says this to the dog after it barks to scare away some other beast or whether it was one cat saying it to another cat after barking to scare away a dog or to trick a goldfish.  Ah, where did those brain cells disappear to?

LH
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> MARGARET E WINTERS
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> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET>
> Sent: Sunday, September 4, 2016 9:54:41 PM
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> Subject: A linguistic lesson in diversity and tolerance
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> Two sheep meet in a meadow.
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> The first one greets the other with "Baaaaa."
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> The second one replies "Moooo."
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> Sheep 1:  "Sheep don't say 'Moooo,' they say 'Baaaaa'."
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> Sheep 2:  "No, I say 'Moooo'; I'm studying a foreign language and culture."
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> (I think this would make a neat lesson for, say, third-graders.)
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> 
> Joel
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