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Jorge Llambias scripsit:
> As for Central+Southern Africa, wouldn't we rather want a
> {joi} than a {ja}?
Yes.
> Those lions are outliers only insofar as their mode of inhabiting
> is weird, not because they inhabit somewhere sparsely populated.
Well, I think either kind of atypicality -- rarity or weirdness -- will serve.
> But is it because they are too few, or because their way of living
> is just too weird to be called a living?
Here it is definitely weirdness. Antarctica has no permanent residents;
nobody is indigenous to Antarctica; nobody is domiciled in Antartica.
When someone goes there, it does not count as going home.
> confidence that lo'e remna doesn't live in some island in the
> Pacific with a similar population to Antarctica but with
> generations of tradition?
Montserrat's population (in the Caribbean) is about the same size
as Antartica's (during summer), but clearly they are not outliers.
> Maybe what you mean is that lo'e remna doesn't
> live in Antarctica in the same way that it lives everywhere
> else? It doesn't have deep roots there? I can agree with that.
No roots at all, in fact.
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