Re: OT elephants, Wales (was NATLANG: Chinese parts of speech (or lack thereof)

--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:10:59PM -0400, John Cowan
> wrote:
> > > I cannot make
> > > anything out of the second one. "Peanut butter"
> to me
> > > refers to the USA, to Jimmy Carter or to Charlie
> > > Brown.
> >
> > The only thing I can think of is that kids
> traditionally feed peanuts
> > to circus elephants, or used to.
>
> I always heard that joke as part of a group, with
> the setup found in an
> earlier joke:
>
>         How do you know when an elephant has been in
> your refrigerator?
>         The round footprints in the peanut butter.
>
> -Marcos
I found some more lights on this particular topic at:

http://www4.wittenberg.edu/academics/engl/GrammarDumb/S-Restrictive-non.html

though I found it a little bit hard to follow. But the
conclusion seems clear.



=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)

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