Re: CHAT: mammals and mammaries

[My brother just crashed the computer, so I don't know whether the mail I
just sent got thru' or not. If so, I apologize for this repetion]

Anna Johnson wrote:
>Andreas wrote: "Refused to eat anything with breasts? Leaving the exact
>definition of "breast" aside, that'd be more or less equivalent to any
>female mammal. Really weird distinction in this context, if you ask me."
>
>Technically it would mean any placental mammal. Mammal, after all, means
>"things with breasts".
I know, but I seriously doubt that Roger's friends ever sat down and worked
out a legalistic technical definition of what they meant by not eating
"anything with breasts".

BTW, I wouldn't normally use the word "breast" when refering to (non-human)
animals' anatomy, tho' this may be Swedish influence. What does the natives
say?

                                    Andreas

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