dream_plants epitome of incomprehensibility How to creep out a sociolinguistics prof: tell her that the plant you're cradling in your hand - what looks like a blueberry bush, denuded for December - contains a pair of dog's paws. These are two patches of close-together branches that each have four flower petals clinging to them in a paw-like pattern. You claim that they ARE paws, at least in spirit, and they can move in a decidedly un-plant-like way. Well, they could before, but not now. When you run your hand over them this time, trying to coax them into movement, they only respond to your touch the way any slight-branched, rooted plant would. They sway in the wind, just a little. They can't move on their own anymore. 221218 what's it to you? who go blather from