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Tweet by Haggard Hawks 🦅, @HaggardHawks, reading "In Old English, MEAT was food of any kind, a GIRL was a young child of either sex, a DEER was any large mammal, a HOUND was any dog, a WIFE was any woman, a FOWL was any bird, to STARVE was merely to die, and an APPLE could be any fruit."

A picture of a sign, edited to read "In this house, we believe: meat is food of any kind, a girl is a young child of either sex, a deer is any large mammal, all women are wives, love is love, to starve is merely to die."

Tweet by alone and spiteful, @matryoshka_core, reading "This is why in Anglish (the "English without Latin words" project), biology is called "deerlore""

The Deerlore page from The Anglish Moot, reading "Deerlore (English: zoology) is the share of lifelore that deals with the lore of living deer. There are two kinds : ridged deerlore (for deer with a backbone, such as birds, suckledeer, fish and creepdeer) and ridgeless deerlore (for for bugs, crabs, snails, squid, worms and swambs)." At the top, an image of a cat chasing a butterfly, with the caption "Here, a cat putting a butterfly to flight, showing one of each of the two main kinds of deer."

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language is pretty great innit by this definition i am a deer which is funny ngl

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