2 Jun
2010
2 Jun
'10
2:43 p.m.
> But modern language must have roots from
somewhere in the deep past.
> I have read that domestication of the horse,around the black sea
> may have been on of the first wide spread use of a language to convey
> ideas at the time.
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Jules Richardson wrote:
Talking horses? Who woulda thunk it? :-)
Trained horses (and dogs) learn many words of English.
(Not counting "Clever Hans"!)
But how much horse (or dog) language do the Yahoos (Swift/Gulliver)
learn?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com