Stumbled on an article on our butchering of the English language via BBC purists and wondered about beaver communications. This being Friday and all. Only once or twice have I heard a beaver make noise but that's another somewhat embarrassing story.
Turns out that beaver have several methods of getting the word out out there in the wild.
Beavers have a pair of anal scent glands, called castors, which secrete a musk-like substance called castoreum. This is used mainly for marking territories. The broad, flat, scaly tail is about 25 cm (about 10 in) long and serves as a warning signal when slapped against the water. Beavers also call out to others, making a low, groaning sound.
Okay I'll let you make your own jokes about all this.
Bank fails later. Oh pardon me that's failures.
addendum: How this code got all mucked up is beyond me but I'm too lazy to fix it right now so deal with it.
3 comments:
Thou knave, canst thee see that word-hoards continentall hath destroied the Kynge's Speach?
Language is as fluid as water, but dammit, use the whole fucking word. Whenever I hear 'whatevs' I want to start kicking the user in the kneecap.
I visit a ladies blog where the grammar and spelling is terrible and other visitors must think she is stupid. I don't think she is stupid but reading her words makes you roll your eyes, she needs a proof reader before posting. We all make mistakes but she flat sucks.
I wonder if beavers groan during sex.
Read somewhere that "there is no pure language, just a continuum of dialects". That came home to me in Prague where I noticed many words from Russian, Ukrainian and Polish languages.
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