language species posts subject pleased perhaps alone eccentric beliefs nonhuman languages started hoping finishing phd work dolphins language continued read somewhere deaf sign language language people saw meeting regularly pub road communicate language often envied stone deaf cursed hearing dislike noisy pubs restaurants stage got thinking proper human language dealt encoding ndimensional conceptual universe onedimensional strings perhaps degenerate dimension extra pay attention prosodic features sign language hand encoded definitely two dimensions even though could figure many let alone found little literature anyone linguistics know least foreign languages perhaps perhaps know least sign language practiced say perhaps mean definitely course perhaps euphemism weak excuse taken time learn practice sign language later dolphins languages cetacean case read somewhere circumstances orcs learnt avoid boats equipped harpoon guns seemed mean must told recognize first meet boats first time seemed efficient try explain someone recognize contraption never encountered paper pencil words misunderstandings galore got thinking another possible form communication cetaceans see sonar like bats communicate read sound wide range hertz 100khz memory serves actually communicated projecting sonar images paintings along stylized representations animated quite possible later tied tell intelligence birds mynah birds seem understand words use proper context complexity bird songs hopelessness schemes dreamt find animals communicated language strikes putting birds whatever different cages pens training one set push third lever left get food see communicate discovery pen communicate projected sonar image looking needle haystack song modulation ditto would rate dozens nay hundreds ways explaining push third lever would say lever never anything like environment third left even jabbered humanlike language one phoneme would hard time spotting exchange know story said piano beach la mar big fella box got black white teeth missus belong white master fight im belong box cry one way say piano way come notion meet nonhuman sentient beings probably wont recognize fact definitions redefinitions language human language features nt got nt language utterly uninteresting would best entirely useless vacuous tautologies nt selfreferencing fact obnoxious leading methods incapable recognizing analyzing nonhuman languages asl insert sarcastic smiley conclude related theme keep reading reconstructed vocal tract neanderthals shows could full language blah blah really loath repeat argument vocal tract parrot reconstructed skeleton j guy trl oz au