no, Nobby, I reckon they'd discovered esses by then, probably nicked' em off'f us. well, they say the Klatchians invented astronomy-' Whereas we're more civilized, see, and we got a lot more stuff around to count, so we invented numbers. Which, as everyone knows, is basically nothing. 'It's having all that desert,' said Nobby. 'I told him, it was people who invented numbers like four and, and-' '-seven-' '-right, who were the geniuses. 'Dun't sound that clever to me,' said Nobby. I said 'What?' an' he said, they come up with zero.' That was their great contribution to maffs, he said. 'In fact,' he went on, a little more assertively now he could see a way ahead, 'I heard this wizard down the University say that the Klatchians invented nothing. The Jingo, the 21st book of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, follows the adventures of Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork city watch and his faithful. for people whose brains aren't clever enough for numbers, see?'

'Well, there's.' Colon racked his brains. Jingo in the Jungle by Serena Lane Ferrari is a great children’s book that can help children learn to love and respect animals as well as teach them the issues of deforestation and how it impacts wildlife. 'I wouldn't call it clever,' said Sergeant Colon, realizing too late that he'd made a tactical error. That's how you can tell they're Klatchian. They invented all the words starting with 'al'. No, the way you can tell a Klatchian is, you look an' see if he uses a lot of words beginning with 'al', right? 'Cos that's a dead giveaway. Jingo in the Jungle is based on the true story of an orangutan - in Indonesia - defending its home and habitat from being destroyed by a bulldozer. 'Bit weird but, basic'ly, just the same as us underneath. It isn't much of an island that rises up one moonless night from the depths of the Circle Sea-just a few square miles of silt and some old ruins. especially the bit about the klatchian inventions:Īh, but Omnians are more like us,' said Colon. Buy a cheap copy of Jingo book by Terry Pratchett. Yeah, that's one of my favourite scenes from the book too.