[Ads-l] the platypus of languages

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

a friend quotes this to me on Facebook:

  French was the swan, German the beaver, and thus English is the platypus of languages.

new to me.  i did find 

  https://www.nerdonomy.com/the-platypus-of-languages/

  the Nerdonomy site, with a podcast "The Platypus of Languages" (not dated)

this has probably been investigated here, but in case not...

arnold

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