Jay F Shachter wrote: > from the fact that English has two separate and unrelated words for > "horse" and "donkey", in contrast to, for example, one word for > "camel" and "elephant", even though the difference between a horse and > a donkey is much smaller than the difference between a one-humped > camel and a two-humped camel, or between an African elephant and an
In the Dutch language we have a different word for the one humped variation (dromedaris) and the two humped variation (kameel). Although I do not believe these animals are of much importance in Dutch culture. ;-) So this part of your argument may not hold as much truth. Greetings, jeroen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list Assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
