[Lexicog] Neither fish nor fowl
Benjamin Barrett
gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Thu May 8 22:55:17 UTC 2008
Kamo no hashi (鴨嘴). :) BB
On May 8, 2008, at 5:47 PM, Fritz Goerling wrote:
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> Hi Bill,
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> Have you ever seen a jackalope? J
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> In Bavaria we have the equally legendary Wolpertinger.
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> Fritz
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> In Japanese the platypus is kamo no hoshi "duck-beak".
> Carrier has no term for platypus.
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> Bill
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