Location Taken: Frankfort, Michigan
Time Taken: December 2007
Relevance to post: none, but what the hey, it’s Christmas Eve.
Love is a three-toed sloth.
Is that enough of a post? It’s a fine statement, but I suppose you probably want some sort of context or something? Sheesh, the things people ask for…
Alright, context. I was playing Boggle with my mother, and she was of course winning. I had 21 points at the end, she had 128. This is not only common, it’s expected. I never play any sort of word game with her with any hope of winning. Not only does she find words quite quickly, and write them down just about as fast, she has an absurdly large vocabulary.
Which brings me to the love and sloth. Well, almost. One of the words she found in one of the five rounds we played was “ais”. That is, the plural of the word ai, one of the alternate names for the Pale-throated sloth, a three-toed variety found in northern South America. It makes an “ai-ai” call, hence the name.
I recognize the word “ai” from a different place, or to be more specific, a different language. The most common Japanese word for love, 愛, is pronounced “ai”, and that’s how it’s written in the romanji method of putting Japanese into the english alphabet.
Oh, and the sloth ai is pronounced exactly the same way as the love ai.
And thus, love is a three-toed sloth.
