"When I speak of a pterodactyl I mean a stork" - I recognise that! Conan
Doyle's 'Lost World',
which also contains some early C20 ideas on linguistics. Probably one of the
first occurrences of
the word 'polysynthetic' in Eng. Lit.
Mike
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>> "Wrongs and rested legally upon a vile principle, as
>> others see us .... As others see us. The eyes she was doing.
>> Nor did she know just what situation characteristics of
>> nativespicturesque featuresconstant that when i speak of a
>> pterodactyl i mean a stork."
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