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Excellent article! (bluppfisk)

[edit] moose

At one point in the article, there is gloss for moose as "twig eater", this makes no sense, as anyone farmiliar with algonquian languages can simply point out that /mus/ or /mo:z/ is too morphologically simple to imply an agent nominilation and that it makes very little sense that an algonquian language would lexicalise a noun like "twig eater", a better gloss is suggested by "http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=moose&searchmode=none" as "he strips off" which seems much more like something an algonquian language would do. If no one contests this, I'm gonna change the article.ave matthew at ace ma'noya (talk) 00:10, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

You're probably right. I wonder if this crept in along the way if people were puzzled by what "he strips off" could mean, s.o. decided on a looser translation to clarify, and it's just been copied verbatim ever since. kwami (talk) 01:15, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
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