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corpMaverick
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Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventio...
In Spanish. Pen=Pluma. Feather=Pluma.
thaumasiotes
30 days ago
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In Mandarin Chinese a pen is 笔, obviously derived from the word for a paintbrush, 笔. Feathers don't come into it - Chinese is traditionally written with a paintbrush - but the pattern is the same.
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