Quote(s) of the Day
I came across two amusing wordings today that I'd like to share...
First, I sent a message to a mailing list, which got bounced with the following message: Sorry, but this mailing list does not accept submissions by email.
I know, I know, this might not be that uncommon, but it struck me as quite a contradiction, when I read it. ;)
The second one is from a elicited wordlist, where someone collected about 100 words from several indigenous peoples of West Papua. In the foreword to these lists, he included this note on one of the lexical items: "Vulva," defined for ease of monolingual elicitation as a female pig's external genitalia.
I see the logic behind this, but still I find this a bit amusing.
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n_true) wrote,
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