what is a guinea pig? how it is used in conversational context?
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It's a small rodent, larger than a rat, often used for laboratory experiments.  In conversation, it's sometimes used to refer to people who are testing something for someone else, such as when a cook trying a new dish says to her guests, "You are my guinea pigs."  It doesn't necessarily have a bad connotation.
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This is the most recommended website for guinea pig health information:\n\nhttp://www.guinealynx.info\n\nbut please, get your pig to a vet immediately.  When guinea pigs get sick, they can go down very quickly, and it sounds like your pig is ill.
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Only when it comes to animal poo (our cat and dog.) For the dog, my hub will say,"you gotta take a plop?" or  I'll say to the dog, does my honey bunny have take a poo pee doo pee?" I'm crackin myself up typing this. No one ever asked this question before and i bet a ton of people say stuff like this. I have other phrases that aren't so cute, (To the dog) "come on turd factory go poop.
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(-: How polite are you being?\n\nPet is almost the same in English and Japanese.  Do you know the name of the person you are asking?  Let's say it's Tanaka's pet. (Yes, it's more polite to call use third-person even if it's a second-person conversation.)\n\nTanaka-san no petto desu ka?\n\nIf you don't know, try plain "you"\nAnata no petto desu ka?\n\nOr a slightly colder "you"\nOtaku no petto desu ka?\n\nOh, how cute!\nAra! Kawaii, ne!\n\nHe is pooping in my yard (and I want you to do something about it).\nUchi no niwa ni unko shite iru rashii desu kedo.\n\n(-: Hope that helps.
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what can the pig do 4 u anyway?
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Guinea pigs were first domesticated in about 2000 BC, though not by the Inca. They were domesticated by various tribes in the Andes in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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An animal that has been frequently used in laboratory testing due to it's biological likeness to humans.\n\nsee also...\n\nhttp://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761560421/Rhesus_Monkey.html
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Much to the dissmay of Noam Chomsky, it appears that differnent non-human animals do have varying degrees of linguistical comprehension ability.\n\nChimps and Gorillas can be taught the ability to use sign language to some degree and they demonstrate the ability to understand spoken language. \n\nMany mammals can understand certain phrases and/or words, some relying more heavily on tones than others. Parrots of course can speak more clearly than any non-human animal and African Grey's have demonstrated actual understanding of some of the words spoken to them by picking out objects asked of them, such as a toy car, and even identifying the color. \n\nResearch has even shown that even the lowly rat can distinguish the difference between the sound patterns of different human languages. Of course it's unlikely they are able to understand any words to any degree but it does underscore the importance of communication and the fact that social animals are biologically hard wired for it.
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In rhetoric, linguistics and poetry, onomatopoeia is a figure of speech that employs a word, or occasionally, a grouping of words, that imitates, echoes, or suggests the object it is describing, such as "bang" or "click", or animal noises such as "moo", "quack" or "meow".\n\nwww.wikipedia.com\n\nExamples\n\n# Automobile - "honk" for the horn, "vroom" for the engine, "screech" for the tires, "eroonga" for the gears\n# Train - "clickety-clack" crossing a junction, "choo-choo" for the whistle.\n# Cash register - "ka-ching\n\n\n#\n\n    * Chicken - "cluck", "cackle", "bawk", "buck"\n    * Crow - "caw"\n    * Dove - "coo"\n    * Duck - "quack"\n    * Owl - "hoo" or "hoot"\n    * Rooster - "cock-a-doodle-doo", "tiktilaok" (PH)\n    * Turkey - "gobble"\n\n# Insects - "buzz"\n\n    * Bee - "buzz"\n\n# Mammals\n\n    * Cat - "meow" (US)/"miow" (UK)/"miauw"(NL), "mereow" (US)/"miaow" (UK), "purr", "niaou" (Greek)\n          o Lion - "roar", "rawr"\n    * Cow - "moo"\n    * Dog - "woof", "ruff", "arf", "grrr" (see bark), "whimper"\n    * Dolphin - "click"\n    * Donkey - "hee-haw"\n    * Frog - "ribbit", "croak" (Note: many species of frog make different calls.)\n    * Horse - "neigh", "whinny", "snort"\n    * Human - "prattle", "blab", "blah blah", "murmur", "brouhaha", "bar bar", "yadda yadda", "ra ra ra", "squee"\n    * Mouse/Rat - "squeak"\n    * Pig - "oink", "wee-wee-wee"\n    * Sheep - "baa"\n    * Wolf - "howl", "aroo"\n\n# Reptiles\n\n    * Snake - "hiss", "sss"\n\n\n\n\nThis is a list of common English onomatopoeic words compiled from the World Wide Web.\n\n    * ba-boom\n    * bang\n    * bam\n    * bark\n    * bawl\n    * beep\n    * belch\n    * bing\n    * blab\n    * blare\n    * bling (diamond shining, may also be a representation of being wealthy)\n    * blurt\n    * boing\n    * bong\n    * bonk\n    * boom\n    * bow-wow\n    * bump\n    * burble\n    * burp\n    * buzz\n    * cheep (parrot)\n    * chop\n    * clang\n    * clank\n    * clap\n    * clatter\n    * click\n    * cock-a-doodle-doo\n    * crack\n    * crackle\n    * crash\n    * crash-boom (lightning strike)\n    * cuckoo\n    * ding\n    * ding-dong\n    * dong\n    * drip\n    * fwat\n    * gasp\n    * goosh\n    * grumble\n    * grunt\n    * gurgle\n    * hee-haw (donkey)\n    * hiccup\n    * hiss\n    * honk\n    * huff\n    * hum\n    * hurl\n    * ka-blam\n    * ka-boom\n    * ka-ching\n    * klap (Spanish for gunshot)\n    * meow\n    * moo\n    * murmur\n    * oink\n    * ping-pong\n    * plop\n    * poof\n    * pop, popped, popping\n    * puff\n    * quack\n    * rat-tat-tat-tat (beginning of machine gun fire)\n    * ring\n    * roar\n    * roared\n    * rustle\n    * scratch\n    * screech\n    * sigh\n    * sizzle\n    * sniff\n    * spit\n    * splash\n    * splat\n    * splut\n    * squawk\n    * squeak\n    * squeal\n    * squelch\n    * squish\n    * swoosh\n    * tat-tat-tat-tat (machine gun, not the beginning of firing)\n    * tee tee (baby chick)\n    * thud\n    * thump\n    * thwap\n    * tick\n    * tick-tock\n    * ting\n    * tink\n    * tock\n    * tweet tweet\n    * vroom\n    * wham\n    * woosh\n    * yip yip (dog screaming)\n    * zang\n    * zap\n    * zip\n    * zoom\n    * zzzzz\n\n\nOnomatopoeia in advertising\n\nAdvertising uses onomatopeoia as a mnemonic so consumers will remember their produ
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A pig..they can have an orgasm for up to three days.  Yeah, I bet you want to be a pig now too. haha
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Satire - (from dictionary.com)\n1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.  \n2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.  \n\ngood word...I probably would have just asked for "symbolism" in Animal Farm.\n\nI think the main theme of the satire part of it is in exposing the follies of placing one group in charge of politics that is no better than the last group was. (In the end the pigs were walking on 2 legs and the other animals couldn't tell the difference between them and when the humans were in charge...they were getting the same bad deal. \n\nOne particular folly that I think it points out is with the horse. The horse could represent the masses of people (or the proletariat)(or working class Americans or whatever nation) they do hold a lot of power and could actually make changes - if they could just figure it out...but their motto is "I will work harder" not "I will figure out what is broken and fix that" So they just go to work at the same old drudgery and don't help solve the problem...at one point though they show their true power and from what I remember the horse pins a pig down with his powerful hoof...\n\nI remember that the pigs are to represent Communism or a socialist form of government...I think Orson Wells is trying to show people that it isn't a good system, and he is exposing what is going on, but he is also demonstrating the folly as well, in that the masses cannot or will not learn even when someone is pointing it out to them...as he is pointing out to us in his book and what do the masses do about it? They say "I will work harder" now it takes 2 incomes to buy a home and raise a family in many areas...etc..etc...
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Dexter Dog\nBianca Bunny\nMushroom Guinea Pig\nSkittles Guinea Pig
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i would say it's a figure of speech. it's like when you are at a store. one aisle can have food and stuff on it and the other side can have toilet paper things on it.........\nso i guess if you are talking about ploitics then it's like they talk about opposite things....\nthat's all i can think of............hope it helps  ^_^
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http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/chat.html\nhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/\nhttp://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wrader/slang/\nhttp://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/slang/\nhttp://www.world-english.org/slang_world.htm\nClick on the above links to find what u r looking for.
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"Script monkey" is a well-deserved derogatory term for people, usually doing telephone support, that are incapable or unwilling to properly diagnose a problem.  This means they go through a pre-written script of questions, which are essentially put into a flow-chart, and they follow it until it reaches the pre-fabricated reply.  If you're lucky, the people who wrote the script did it well enough that your script monkey was able to able to get you both to the proper conclusion.\n\nBefore I wander too far, it's a somewhat common term.  I doubt it's common in call centers filled with know-nothing "engineers" and "technicians", but it's common enough with people who have to call the so-called "technicians" or "engineers".
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a guinea pig\n\n can suffer from a heart attack \nIf it  is  very overweight .\n\n If it is given , too much high starch food in its food ,\nand not enough green stuff and sweet meadow hay \n\n  it can suffer a heart attack if it is stressed;\n\n by being chased by cats or dogs \n frightened by rats or mice .\n by being picked up roughly\nbeen dropped \n its hutch in a noisy busy area .\n\n It is the responsibility ,of the owner of a guinea pig \nto understand their needs , and keep them safe and well.\n\nhere are some good sites ,with some  more  information for you\n\nGuinea Pig Care \nFree pet care information from The Blue Cross - Britain's pet charity \nwww.allaboutpets.org.uk \n\n\nKeep Guinea Pigs as Pets \nEverything You Really Need To Know About Pet Guinea Pigs In One Place! \nSmileyPets.com/GuineaPigsPets \n\n {^,,^}
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A simplified form of speech that is usually a mixture of two or more languages, has a rudimentary grammar and vocabulary, is used for communication between groups speaking different languages, and is not spoken as a first or native language. Also called contact language.