National Geographic Article
 

Apes' Basic Cognitive Depths Exceed Former Guesstimates

"Higher intelligence," John Kenneth Lattenborough maintains, "notably of primates, quite rightly supports theories underlying vital work: Xander Yablonski’s Zeitschrift: Afrikanisch Beobachtung”. :

"Chimps demonstrate earlier fieldwork groundlessly hyped, indeed, jingoistically, kabbalistically, lauded Man's notably oxymoronic primacy -- quantitatively reasserting 'superiority' that ultimately vaunts worn-out, xenophobic, yahooistic zoology."

That's great, Marion.

If you could find something better for kabbalistically, it would be perfect. But near perfect is nothing to sneeze at.

this is cruel & unusual punishment
 

Archie's Beach Cafe. Divine eggs florentine. Great highballs. I joined Katrina late morning, nurturing our propinquity. Questioned respectfully, she tightened up: very wary, xenophobic, yielding zero. After breakfast came dialogue:
'Exciting for girls here?' I joked knowingly.
'Like me? No.'
'Or perhaps quite – '
'Routine?' Suddenly the urgent voice – why? 'Xavier, your zen approach beats coercion, decidedly, except for – good heavens!'
I jumped. Katrina laughed. My nerves oscillated proleptically.
Quentin rigidly stood there, ugly, vicious. With Xanthippe.
Your zealots.

Ah, Bazza - your usual smooth performance - like a big Bentley. And no words I do not know -except coerdon.

Ah Bazza, cleverly done! Excellent! Fantastic!
God! Help! It just keeps lassoing me! Noooo!! Oh, please--quit! Ridiculous Speccie! This utterly vile waste! xxxx you! zzzzzzzzzzzz......:(


(I have to admit, even after googling Xanthippe, I don't get it.(I thought it was an erectile dysfunction drug!) Although I get the general idea...;))

Thanks, Bob. I agree, "kabalistically" is scraping the bottom of the barrel. On the other hand I thought the religious sense might evoke things like creationism, etc. I don't know about you, but I find K the hardest; more difficult to fudge than Q, X and Z. What do you all think?

Well, X is definitely the hardest. But K and Y do give me a lot of trouble, and Z is no picnic.

But K ought to be easier than it is. Know, knuckle, kneel, keep, kept alone ought to be enough.

Maybe you could use know-nothingly instead? Or knuckleheadedly?

"no-nothingly" and "knuckleheadedly" seem too informal for this ersatz academic lingo.

I'm willing to offer 10% of the prize money (including the fiver) to anyone who comes up with a good k-word.

It really scares me how addictive this is. What scares me more is the next one I'm planning to do. Pray for me.

Bazza, Wowza! I agree that these are far too enjoyable and time-consuming for anyone's good . . . and what is up with k???

a good k word?
 

kerigma (adj. kerigmatic) – I came across it in Jerry Palmer's book on thrillers.

Xanthippe is just the name of Quentin's sinister female partner. I wanted a sort of Ballardish vibe.

I think you can count on Bill's doing the whole 156, and winning. He's like that.

The new Speccie comp looks like fun for us parodists.

She's come undone
 

Ingenious, Marion. I'm impressed! (Though, at the same time, saddened to see you are so far gone as to undertake such a task).

Actually, the Spanish alphabet is often rendered with the letter k, since Spanish has words like kilowatt. And the Spanish alphabet generally includes X, as far as I know. Plus, Ñ is considered a separate letter from N.The tilde isn't just an accent mark, but transforms the letter.Also, though I believe this is changing in modern dictionaries, "ch" and "ll" and "rr" are often considered to be separate letters.

My sombrero is off to you.

Bob, thanks for your scholarly appraisal. Although I'm not far gone enough to even attempt to make those changes-- though you are welcome to. (That damn tilde!) Anyway, I figure most people won't even know the difference... so let's keep it between you, me and the lamppost, OK?;)

Surprisingly, this one was much easier than the others. Maybe because I didn't care how stupid it sounded.

Bazza, yeah, Bill's definitely gonna make the touchdown. He's probably working at it even as we speak.

But we're producing some very fine stuff here! I predict Erato takes this one handily.

Jeeze, we're doing 'em in Spanish now. Who's going to do one in Latin, then? And don't tell m there are no Latin w's and y's. I'm sure we can work our ways round that.

Bob, sad to say, I went back to my Spanish entry: CH and LL are in there now. I think one can argue (if one cares enough) that K and W are only used for a few borrowed words and are essentially foreign to the Spanish alphabet. As for Ñ, I say f*** it. I like my solution for X -- Xaviera Yolanda seems like a good name for this romantic Gothic ambience.

John, she never said anything about it having to be in English, did she?

Agriculus barbatus clerico dixit ecco filia...

Oh, never mind.

Marion, I can't find chaca in any of my standard dictionaries. Did you maybe mean chacal (jackal)?

Bob, I can't get anything by you! while trolling through the CHs I thought I found a word meaning 'beautiful' that was similar to 'chaca'-- but I must have dreamed it. Anyway, changed it again.

I can't believe the time I'm spending on this, when I could be doing better things--Like working on the next Speccie competition!