Re: aardvarkism (was Re: Basque & Katzner's Languages of the World
| From: | Almaran Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 18, 2001, 13:07 |
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> >And there's nothing wrong with having a category with only one member; it
> >happens frequently in biology. There's nothing much like an aardvark, so
it
> >has a whole order all to itself.
And linquistically, aardvark is also something of an oddball in english,
with that double vowel. Silly detail: although the word aardvark comes from
(middle) Dutch, through Afrikaans, it is not a word currently used in Dutch.
We only use "miereneter" (ant eater).
Maarten