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Re: _sloth_ (animal) in various natlangs/conlangs

From:Adrian Morgan <morg0072@...>
Date:Monday, June 12, 2000, 4:01
Mia wrote:

> Sounds like they have the right idea.
I've always loved the Sloth song from the Bestiary of Flanders & Swann. I can't remember all the words right now - only fragments - but great stuff it is. "While eager beavers overhead Rush through the undergrowth I watch the clouds beneath my feet; How sweet to be a sloth"
> But I would say that, having a warm spot in my heart for > all sloths, since my husband and I have decided that the > exhibit of the skeletons of the [extinct] giant ground > sloths (The Great Ground Sloths, as we call them) at > the museum of natural history in Washington, DC are a > shrine, and we make pilgrimages when we can to pray to > the sloths. Just being silly, of course. We are > exceptionally silly people...
Silly is good... Adrian. http://www.flinders.edu.au