Confronting Friends and Family

[Shell B]

ITT: A man who think he's very smart and knows little about linguistics trying to argue linguistics with a linguist. Ouch! This is painful.


This might be of interest, though: Gorillas can't use ASL because of their thumb positions are different than humans (and I think a little less flexible), so they have to alter many signs so that gorillas and other species could actually do it.

I would venture to say that changing a few of the signs to make them attainable to other great apes is not necessarily changing the language. The English language has a shit ton of different dialects. All of them are English.

Someone catch me up here. Are we arguing that species like gorillas cannot use language? Fuck it. I'll actually read the thread. Point above stands. Game on.

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Question: Is Hovik a linguist or a student of linguistics? These are different, like husband and boyfriend are.

Everyone has to forgive me tonight. Summer set me loose on all of yous.

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And, Daniel, we only have one universe? Prove it.

I love picking through a thread backwards and catching the highlights.