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Jim Evans
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Friday, 11 November 2005 |
 SMART TALK
By Sotto Voce, R.N.
FELINE CAT: Recently, I attended a language conference at Cornell University as a delegate from the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired. Since I treat many patients for Redundancy Disorder, I watch for symptoms everywhere I go. I was not surprised to notice that Cornell, in spite of its status, suffers from the disorder on an institutional level. For instance, it has prerequisites for its courses, not requisites. Typical collegiate verbosity.
However, I was surprised to see a symptom I had not encountered in treatment at the institute. I was even more surprised because Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine is world renowned. In spite of that college’s pool of expertise, the campus hosts the Cornell Feline Cat Club.
But I’m not a zoologist. Given the state of recombinant DNA research, perhaps canine cats exist. Or bovine cats. Who knows these days?
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