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.