Re: _sloth_ (animal) in various natlangs/conlangs

Barry Garcia wrote:
> Come on now ;) Have you seen this creature move? In water it's faster than
> in the trees, and it's so slow moving. I hear theyre so slow and mellow
> they even get algae growing in their fur). They really dont do much other
> than look for food, and swim when they have to.
>
Sounds like they have the right idea.

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...

Oh, I need a Mÿjatx word for sloth, both the 3-toed and the giant
ground. I think it has to have n's in it. Nalis? I like that.

Ka mÿnta ad _Smithsonian_. Smixonÿan?  Yeah, that's it. Love it.
Yes, I do.

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