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Professor Mellinkoff traces the verbosity of lawyers to the historical influences of primitive ritual, bilingual duplication, and payment by the word; certainly their Latin and French gave them a running start over competing professions.
In the presence of T-RA, F9 cells differentiate into primitive or visceral endoderm, and into parietal endoderm in the presence of T-RA and bt 2 cAMP [ [ 47 48 ] ]. Differentiation is accompanied by growth inhibition, characteristic changes in cell morphology, targeted degradation of RARγ2, induction of marker genes, and increased apoptosis.
Also, if you enter jump , you get the synonyms for that; but if you enter jumped , you get the (same) synonyms but inflected—including the variants leapt, leaped for leap . All in all, for a relatively primitive system, it is not too bad; but you would have to be in love with your computer to use it in preference to a far more complete books of synonyms available (especially The Synonym Finder , Rodale in the U.S. and Canada, Longman elsewhere, which offers more than 800,000 synonyms, more than three times the number listed in any other synonym book).
Moreover, chimps are the civilized ones, while humans--slow, clumsy, embarrassingly hairless--are a primitive joke.
Other languages, often regarded as more "primitive" than English, have highly evolved vocabularies for denoting family relationships, so that a single word can denote, say, one's maternal grandfather's sister.