{"id":12418,"date":"2009-10-01T08:30:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T15:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2009\/10\/01\/gorilla-gorilla.html"},"modified":"2009-10-01T08:30:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T15:30:49","slug":"gorilla-gorilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2009\/10\/01\/gorilla-gorilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorilla gorilla"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I'm pretty sure that I already knew that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_Gorilla\">Western Gorilla<\/a> has the taxonomic name <i>Gorilla gorilla<\/i> (genus + species).<\/p>\n<p>But I don't think I knew until now that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_Lowland_Gorilla\">Western Lowland Gorilla<\/a> has the taxonomic name <i>Gorilla gorilla gorilla<\/i> (genus + species + subspecies). (Also known as <i>G. g. gorilla<\/i>.)<\/p>\n<p>I'm sure that to scientists, this is a perfectly ordinary name. But I'm tickled by it.<\/p>\n<p>And it makes me think that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cse.buffalo.edu\/~rapaport\/BuffaloBuffalo\/buffalobuffalo.html\">Buffalo buffalo buffalo<\/a> ought to be the taxonomic name for the Midwestern Lowland Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>(See also <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo\">Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo<\/a> in Wikipedia.)<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badgerbadgerbadger.com\/\">Badger badger badger<\/a> ought to be some kind of taxonomic name as well.<\/p>\n<p>Note that in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.badger.mn.us\/\">Badger, MN<\/a>, they allow badgers to create and provide badges, so those are Badger badger badgers; I hear that Badger badger badgers Badger badger badgers badger badger Badger badger badgers.<\/p>\n<p>Now I want to start putting together sentences like \"Buffalo buffalo <i>Gorilla gorilla gorilla<\/i> buffalo buffalo <i>Gorilla gorilla gorilla<\/i>.\"<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe  \"<i>Gorilla gorilla gorilla<\/i> Buffalo buffalo buffalo badger Badger badger badgers.\"<\/p>\n<p>(I'm assuming that <i>Gorilla gorilla gorilla<\/i> can be used as a plural, which may be grammatically dubious but makes for funnier sentences.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that I already knew that the Western Gorilla has the taxonomic name Gorilla gorilla (genus + species). But I don&#8217;t think I knew until now that the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-names"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}