Subject: Re: raccoon

From: "Alfred W. Tueting (Tüting)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 07:46:14 -0000

--- In [email-masked], Pierre Abbat <phma@o...> wrote:
> la'o gy. raccoon .gy saske se cmene zoi ly. Procyon lotor .ly noi se fanv=
a fu
> lo'u lumci ke pu'o gerku li'u .i e'u mi'o te cmene ra 
> lu lumci gerku li'u
> a zo lumge'u
> a zo porkiono
> a zo mabrlprokiono

mi na nelci zo gerku :)
To me, "raccoon" has nothing dog-like, but something of a cat (feline) and =
a lot of a bear!
Since my early days (when still a child and "being an Indian" with those ra=
ccoon tails around my head) I felt that those cute animals 
were bears! In German, they're also called "Waschbären" (washbears)! So, do=
I feel they're like bears because of their German 
name?? Is this the "lokshe-effect"?

.aulun.