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Peter Duncanson
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:37 am
Post subject: Re: Going bananas |
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On 13 Sep 2005 14:14:09 -0700, "Weatherlawyer"
<Weatherlawyer@hotmail.com> wrote:
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Peter Duncanson wrote:
Apes supposedly love bananas.
It was Mark Brader who wrote that. |
| Quote: | Don't you mean plantains?
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Peter Duncanson
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Weatherlawyer
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:46 am
Post subject: Re: Going bananas |
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Peter Duncanson wrote:
| Quote: | On 13 Sep 2005 14:14:09 -0700, "Weatherlawyer"
Weatherlawyer@hotmail.com> wrote:
Peter Duncanson wrote:
Apes supposedly love bananas.
It was Mark Brader who wrote that.
Don't you mean plantains?
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You expect me to engage in conversation with a person lacking the wit
to know that bananas grow on the opposite side of the world to apes? |
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Jerry Friedman
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:41 am
Post subject: Re: Going bananas |
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Weatherlawyer wrote:
| Quote: | Peter Duncanson wrote:
On 13 Sep 2005 14:14:09 -0700, "Weatherlawyer"
Weatherlawyer@hotmail.com> wrote:
Peter Duncanson wrote:
Apes supposedly love bananas.
It was Mark Brader who wrote that.
Don't you mean plantains?
You expect me to engage in conversation with a person lacking the wit
to know that bananas grow on the opposite side of the world to apes?
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"The most generally used fruits are derived from /Musa paradisiaca/, of
which an enormous number of varieties and forms exist in cultivation.
The sub-species, /sapientum/, formerly regarded as a distinct species
(/M. sapientum/), is the source of the fruits generally known in
England as Bananas and eaten raw, while the name Plantain is given to
forms of the species itself which require cooking. The species is
probably a native of India and Southern Asia."
<http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/p/plafru51.html>
There are apes in India and other parts of southern Asia.
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Jerry Friedman
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Pat Durkin
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:30 pm
Post subject: Re: Going bananas |
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"Weatherlawyer" <Weatherlawyer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1126651577.373277.181080@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
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Peter Duncanson wrote:
On 13 Sep 2005 14:14:09 -0700, "Weatherlawyer"
Weatherlawyer@hotmail.com> wrote:
Peter Duncanson wrote:
Apes supposedly love bananas.
It was Mark Brader who wrote that.
Don't you mean plantains?
You expect me to engage in conversation with a person lacking the wit
to know that bananas grow on the opposite side of the world to apes?
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Pardon me, but haven't apes and plantains/bananas been imported to the US
and Europe, where they may frequently be found in the same locales? |
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Prai Jei
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 12:39 am
Post subject: Re: Going bananas |
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Weatherlawyer (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
<1126646049.326599.315770@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>:
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Peter Duncanson wrote:
Apes supposedly love bananas.
Don't you mean plantains?
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I couldn't resist dropping my (current) sig into this thread, a gem from a
national newspaper a couple of weeks ago.
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There are very few spiders found on bananas that bite.
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Daniel James
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 3:22 pm
Post subject: Re: Going bananas |
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[Followup ignored - sorry Areff, but I don't follow AUE]
In article news:<dg7tac$dbt$1@news.wss.yale.edu>, Areff wrote:
| Quote: | "Opposite side of the world *to*"?
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I would certainly have written "opposite ... from", "opposed ... to" jarred
when I read it. Perhaps, though, that is because I have become sensitized
to the "different ... to" abusage and saw it as similar.
| Quote: | ... do any AmEs find this acceptable?
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Does anyone find it so, for that matter.
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Daniel
[Posting to AEU, from the UK] |
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