Agree - ex language teacher here - (for nano-credibility)
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is not a coversation.
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oh, the fucking military knows this for decades. and its obvious.
(so sick of the still mostly “mysterious”-headlines of whale stranding coverage in mass-media nowadays)
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Never understood why John Lilly tried to get dolphins to speak human than be humane and learn how to speak dolphin.
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Doubt they are in for it. Would assume that they preferred 4D plus special effects on their rift, and are not eyeing oculi. Also, in for a penny doesn’t mean in for a pound in their case. Not even an imperial gallon. Whales go in pods, not in SI units.
The subtext and meta-cetacean part of the conversation will probably occupy whale scholars for ages to come, when the water-apes will be gone and noone in the sea except the whales remember them and sings their songs about them. Did they maybe send a farewell message? And what’s that “thanks for all the fish” nonsense about, anyway?
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“I know that’s messed up. Imagine if aliens kidnapped you and forced you to speak through your asshole”
Duncan Trussell, Drunk History
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Is this the same kind of “conversation” as what we’ve had with Koko? Which later was shown to be basically fraudulent?
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last, and definitely least, how can a conversation with a whale be ground breaking? wouldn’t it be more likely to make a big splash? send waves through the linguistic community? breach the interspecies - well, not wall. definitely not wall. how about - barrier?
now, a whale could break the ground i suppose if it suddenly appeared in the sky above the planet. but it wouldn’t have very much time to do other than grapple with it’s own identity: who am i? why am i here? what is my purpose in life?
a bowl of petunias however…
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A pun thread? Not again
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I’m sure it wasn’t on porpoise
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The conversation between a pot of petunias and a pod of whales would definitely make an impact. Establishing the common ground isn’t that difficult, if you look at it from a higher level.
Just following my stream of consciousness: whales could ask humankind be what they are doing with all the bubbles.
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are you kidding? this is serious discourse
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