Confronting Friends and Family

[Annik]

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.

I'm not as well versed in linguistics, obviously, but I don't think that gorillas have the brain capacity for the true language learning. Hovik said before that languages can come up with an infinite combinations of words, GSL is too limited for that. It's more like a pigeon than a true language (I'm sure I'll get corrected at some point if I'm wrong, but this is the way I understand it).

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.

He has completed everything he needs for a basic degree, but he is going beyond that. See, it's kind of like how boyfriend and husband are different, but fiance and husband are more similar. Beyond that, though, Hovik is the kind of person who studied linguistics before he went to college for it can continues to study more advanced topics in his spare time. He might not have a doctorate yet, but make no mistake, the man is a linguist.