Re: Dublex (was: Washing-machine words (was: Futurese, Chinese,

John Cowan wrote:
>J Y S Czhang scripsit:
>
> >     It may help to show examples of this, And. From taxonomy and
>natlangs
> > (and, possibly, conlangs). I am keen to clear this up myself ;) Thanx in
> > advance...
>
>Well, the lowland or common gorilla is "Gorilla gorilla gorilla", whereas
>the mountain gorilla is "Gorilla gorilla beringei".  Then we have the
>indri,
>a prosimian of Madagascar, whose Linnaean name is "Indri indri".
>
>But my favorite Linnaean name belongs to the boa constrictor: "Boa
>constrictor".
>No kidding.
I may be very dense, but what's the joke?

                                             Andreas

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