rationale for funky frogs and pedantic brush

maa32 · 21 Mar 2002, 05:33 · from urth-v0203.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) rationale for funky frogs and pedantic brush
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 22:33:01 -0700
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Someone asked why I bothered with the trematode/frog thing.  Jerry previous=
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commented that he hadn't seen anything that indicated these polyploid frogg=
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X. Leavis might have multiple limbs... but that article indicates that this=
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a common mutation they experience.  Obviously it has nothing (or little) to=
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with their polyploidy and more to do with their regenerative powers. =20
If I wanted to be a real jackass I could say that the liana's are like=20
Trematodes to the trees, stimulating extra limb growth with their cysty=20
presence (remember that the pit Horn fell into was covered with vines). =20
However, I will do no such thing and just leave it as meaning nothing becau=
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that is pushing the realms of credibility and rationality far beyond anythi=
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I am willing to do.  (Of course, that was a nice little rhetorical occupati=
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right there, wasn't it?)

Incidentally, the first definition for "Brush" at merriam webster online is=20
"Brushwood".  I am here going to imply that we use a test to see which of t=
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following relationships hold: leaf: brushwood: tree or leaf: scrubbing brus=
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tree
 Can't brushwood be rough and brown if it's dead?
I shouldn't beat that to death.  I'll leave it alone.  I'm just saying that=20
simple words often have more than one definition ... and in this case the=20
context just seems to insinuate foliage of somekind.  If you still want to=20
argue about the word, then I will copy all of the dictionary definitions ov=
er.=20
We are both saying the same thing about new life to decayed things, I'm jus=
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saying the new sun is granting a different kind of life rather than a=20
resurrection. I guess there is no sense discussing it further - we are "kin=
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of" saying the same thing.
Marc

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