At 01:00 PM 5/29/2003 -0500, Gumbie Tygress wrote:

>> shoot, I'd argue the same thing for dogs... I
>
>I guess the professors differentiate communication from language....
>
>Of course, there are those that argue critters don't think.
>Obviously haven't watched a squirrel work out a bird feeder.
>Or don't feel emotionally -- =eye roll=
>
>True, even we who know better anthropomorphize -- but a lot of that is
>framing language in terminology WE understand.
>

My friend Barbara, owned by cats, used to have posted in her kitchen a
quotation from Mark Twain to the effect that it isn't what cats are saying
that's so objectionable, it's their grammar!

Veloci--my cat is very vocal in the kitchen, the rotten belly thing--raptor


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