The Spanish word for monkey is "mono". Except for in Colombia, where they use the word "mico". The word "mono" does exist here, it just has a different meaning : blond. Colombians will describe me with the term "mono", even before they see me in a tree.
How did this mix-up happen ? Well, I have a theory. You see, we spent part of our Spring Break in Tayrona National Park where the Sierra Nevada mountains crash into the Caribbean Sea. And while there, we saw the most curious little primate, the Cotton-Top Tamarin.
Obviously, Franz Liszt's henchmen pianists Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns and Charles-Valentin Alkan took some samples of Liszt's DNA and semen with them to South America so that they could recreate the genetics and life of the Hungarian piano-playing virtuoso.
And then some cheeky monkey stole the samples, obviously !
See the family resemblance ? The monkey below is trying to play the tree trunk !
[Written in 2012]
No comments:
Post a Comment