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| Carisma Diglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 5626 days ago 104 posts - 161 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC1 Studies: Italian, Mandarin | Message 1 of 34 14 May 2011 at 4:32am | IP Logged | |||||
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Every language we learn is meant to communicate with people, but it turns out we might not be the only ones in the Earth using language systems. Scientists have studied various cetaceans, and have found differences between the sounds made by whales in the different oceans. It seems, also, that these sounds have syntax.
There is current project, Speak Dolphin (www.speakdolphin.com), that is studying the sounds produced by dolphins, trying to get a meaning and looking into the chance of producing other sounds as answers. Imagine what it would be like to communicate with animals! Definitely the ultimate dream of the language lover. And what seems like science fiction could be true in the future. 9 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5340 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 2 of 34 14 May 2011 at 4:36am | IP Logged | |||||
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Sounds incredible!
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| Matheus Senior Member Brazil Joined 5085 days ago 208 posts - 312 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, French | Message 3 of 34 14 May 2011 at 4:49am | IP Logged | |||||
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I don't know much about communicating with Whales, but I read somewhere that Dolphins are the most intelligent animals of the Earth (someone can confirm that?). I believe in the possibility of communicating with them. It would be awesome, not only for language lovers, but for everyone. It's actually possible to communicate with animals in a simple way (as trainers do), but I think that's different.
A lot of animals (perhaps them all) produce sounds, and many of them communicate with themselves. Perhaps the Dolphins are the only specie able to use a higher level of communication. I do believe in this project, and I hope it happens. Science is awesome. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5324 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 5 of 34 14 May 2011 at 5:07am | IP Logged | |||||
Regular bees or African killer bees? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| akprocks Senior Member United States Joined 5290 days ago 178 posts - 258 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 6 of 34 14 May 2011 at 5:16am | IP Logged | |||||
Would you consider those a separate language or a dialectal continuum? 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Woodpecker Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5815 days ago 351 posts - 590 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian) Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 7 of 34 14 May 2011 at 5:23am | IP Logged | |||||
In fact, dolphins are the second most intelligent species on the planet. White mice are first, and humans come in a rather distant third. Edited by Woodpecker on 14 May 2011 at 5:23am 10 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5700 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 8 of 34 14 May 2011 at 9:35am | IP Logged | |||||
You see, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons. 6 persons have voted this message useful |
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