[Ads-l] "Ants on a log" -- Request from a freelance writer

[Dave Hause]

I'm fairly sure that those two phrases would be the same characters in 
Chinese - neither nouns or verbs are inflected for number.
Dave Hause

-----Original Message----- 
From: Arnold M. Zwicky
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2019 1:15 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: "Ants on a log" -- Request from a freelance writer

i wrote:

the usual English translation of the name of the dish is
    ant climbs tree

an interesting typo for:
    ants climb tree

arnold

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