Re: Origin and function of language
Richard Foy (rfoy@netcom.com)
Wed, 3 Jul 1996 17:23:49 GMT
In article <4r8g4c$ejn@news.datakom.su.se>,
Jan Bhme <jan.Bohme@imun.su.se> wrote:
>rfoy@netcom.com (Richard Foy) wrote:
>
>>In article <4qr6d8$g1n@news.datakom.su.se>,
>>Jan Bhme <jan.Bohme@imun.su.se> wrote:
>
>>>
>>>On the other hand, seals and otters don't talk.
>
>>But it appears taht dolphins and humpback whales do.
>
>I don't know of humpbacks, but dolphin vocalisation was studied with
>furore in the dophin heaydays of the early seventies. Essentially
>nothing came out of it.
>
>So either, their language is so extremely clever that we can't figure
^^^^^^
I think that perhaps a better word would be different.
>it out, or it isn't really that much of a language.
>
>Jan Bohme
>
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