Language is a funny thing. It fueled the rise of our so called
civilization, but it evolved on it's own so it has all those quirks.
English is generally thought of as a mix between Germanic and Romance
(French) languages and there are all those borrowings. I think another
thing is that the English were more literate. In other languages it was
just the scholars who used written language whereas in English you had
ye olde Joe Sixpacke chiming in with his own variations. That's kind of
my own theory. I don't hear many other people saying it, but it kind
of makes common sense. But, as you know, common sense isn't always what
it is cracked up to be.
Why elks and moose and not like bears and eagles and pumas? Normally we
like the top predators, the popular athletic teams are often named
after them. There are bisons, but that's probably because they are from
Buffalo. And what of the elks and the moose. Do you call a couple
people from the latter lodge two moose? And did the one lodge come out
of a splinter group of the other? That is a job for wiki I guess, but
not this morning.
So a patched together Old Betsy, a vehicle in disrepair, whose part for
all we know will never show up in the shot, a hypothetical wife who will
not buy beer for her hubby, and a hunting season that so far is Deer 2,
Beagles 0. Things seem a little dire in Beaglesonia.
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