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   From: derek@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Christopher Henrich wrote:   
   >   
   > I do remember, from the 50's, a radio comedy show called "Rawhide." It   
   > was like Monty Python in that it featured extreme silliness powered by   
   > notable cleverness.   
      
   The 50s?  I didn't know it went back so far, but it ran for quite a long   
   time.  Max Ferguson was, if not all the characters, very nearly so.   
      
   >> > 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...   
   >   
   > Well, you see, in the Kalahari language, verbs agree in gender with   
   > their subjects; "meerkat" and "bleat" had feminine gender whereas   
   > "rhinoceros" and "remains" had masculine gender.... [1]   
      
   Ah, well that clears that up :-)   
   --   
   derek   
      
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