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- Mr Chairman.
- Yes.
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What is the male's name, please?
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- Cornelius.
- My lawfully wedded spouse.
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- Wedded?
- We'll take that up later, Your Eminence.
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Cornelius, do you and
your lawfully wedded spouse
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speak any language other than English?
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What is English?
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l speak the language taught to me by my
parents, who were taught by their parents.
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lt has been the language
of our ancestors for nearly 2,000 years.
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As to its origins, who can be sure?
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The gorillas and orangutans
of our community
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believe that God created the ape
in His own image, and that our language...
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Nonsense!
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Cornelius, as an intellectual, you know
the gorillas are militaristic nincompoops
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and the orangutans, a bunch
of blinkered, pseudoscientific geese!
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As to humans, l've dissect...
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l've examined thousands ofthem,
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and, until now, l've only
discovered two who could talk in my life.
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God knows who taught them.
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Where we come from, apes talk.
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Humans are dumb.
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- Where do you come from, Cornelius?
- l'm not sure.
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Dr Milo was sure.
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Dr Milo was a genius
well in advance of his time.
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When the spacecraft first landed on our
seaboard, it was Dr Milo who salvaged it.
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He studied it and half understood it.
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Half? Was half enough?
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lt was enough for us to escape
when war became inevitable.
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Enough for Dr Milo
to be murdered in your zoo.
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Enough for my wife and l to be here now.
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- From where, Cornelius?
- l told you. l'm not sure.