GR translation: English Pavlovian jokes

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Thu Aug 11 10:03:54 UTC 2022


V168.16-19, P171.6-9   He begins making jokes, English Pavlovian jokes,
nearly all of which depend on one unhappy accident: the Latin cortex
translates into English as “bark,” not to mention the well-known and
humorous relation between dogs and trees

Here, does the word "English" refer to English humor or the English
language?


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