Lakota elephants!
willemdereuse at unt.edu
willemdereuse at unt.edu
Tue Jan 22 02:17:47 UTC 2008
We'll need to ask a couple of native speakers about the mysterious
okicu part. It is much more likely that the meaning intended is
something like "picks up with the upper lip" (of the end of the trunk).
That is by far the most striking thing with an elephant. In Apache,
elephant is "the one that ropes with his nose". It's nice to keep the
Buechel-Manhart (1970) edition around... The diacritics are clearer
there.
> Il ne s'agit qu' un crime passionel, monsieur le juge! ;)
Permettez-moi de corriger ceci. "Il ne s'agit que d'un crime passionnel..."
Willem (a compatriot of Georges Simenon and of Hercule Poirot)
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