| From: | Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 10, 2000, 23:24 |
Recently I received a nice postcard from Costa Rica.
A postcard with a 3 Toed Sloth.
On the card it has:
PEREZOSO
THREE TOED SLOTH
PARESSEUX
Poor creature has a bad reputation with that kinda name!
And considerin' it has been around longer than most other animals,
it's a shame.
I was wondering if this seems to be common practise in other languages -
natlangs and conlangs - to use a word meaning "lazy/laziness" to mean the
(demean) the animal? Are there any exceptions to this nasty libel &
defamation of the sloth character???
zHANg