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Posted by Blinky the Shark on 06/29/07 06:33
Neredbojias wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:22:24 GMT Blinky the Shark scribed:
>
>>> Wow, looks cool. Maybe I'll do some Googling. Strange they'd name it
>>> "Botany" although it's pleasant-sounding enough. Can't say I know of
>>> any "Zoology Bay", however.
>>
>> The Chinese seem to think they do.
>>
>> "They landed in a horrible bay that Cook named Zoology Bay because of
>> the beautiful animals that they found there. Later this was to become
>> the place of the first French settlements in Australia. They found
>> Australia to be a boring country where the soil was white, bears
>> climbed ladders, birds ran but didn¿t fly and large animals jumped about
>> on four legs carrying their young on their heads."
>>
>> Source: http://www.54laoshi.cn/Teaching/test3/test07/19307.html
>
> Hah, what a coincidence! Of course there are those out there who may give
> this less credence than it deserves because the Chinese also refer to their
> boats as junks. Tao only knows what they call sharks, but I'd laugh if it
> was "trash-fish" or something equally alliterative.
>
> What a minute... Upon reading your link, it says it's a *mistake* in a
> lesson. Tryin' to pull the lids over my eyes, eh?
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Actually, I didn't catch that.
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