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   From: no.spam@no.spam   
      
   Derek Broughton wrote:   
   > Sean_Q_ wrote:   
      
   >> In other words a meerkat may bleat at a rhinoceros, but it still remains   
   >> a rhinoceros. --[Kalahari Bushman saying of my own recent invention]   
   >   
   > Surely "it" remains a meerkat?   Perhaps, I'm missing the point...   
      
   You're correct that the sentence was gramatically ambiguous. However,   
   it was hard translating Bushmanese, especially not knowing the language   
   (beyond what I picked up in _The Gods Must be Crazy_ I & II).   
      
   I thought meerkats were cool, until I saw one killing someone else's   
   baby (on _Meerkat Manor_) and she wasn't even hauled up for   
   Meerkittenicide.   
      
   SQ   
      
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