Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: LibWhacker
“People shouldn’t think of this as the one language gene but as part of a broader cascade of genes,” he said. “It would have been truly spectacular if they had wound up with a talking mouse.”

Not nearly as spectacular if the mouse had said: "Get this damn thing out of me you fools, can't you see I'm a mouse. Now shut the hell up and get me some cheese..."

5 posted on 05/29/2009 2:01:41 AM PDT by csense
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: csense

Can you imagine instead of hearing mice squeaking inside the walls we had to listen to them complaining about us?


8 posted on 05/29/2009 2:31:21 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ( Obama, you're off the island!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson