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Re: Language of saurian/reptilian beings

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Friday, September 27, 2002, 14:00
 --- Christophe wrote:

> Sorry to be picky, but dinosaurs were not reptiles. We even know now that > they were not cold-blooded animals (but they were not warm-blooded either. > From what we know, dinosaurs had a system which allowed their body to warm > itself up when needed, without exterior source of warmth, but could also be > switched off on demand - to save energy -).
Funny. I know that dinosaurs <> reptiles, but I've always thought that they actually were warm-blooded.
> And we have no idea what kind of sounds those animals produced (to our > knowledge, they could have as well sung all the songs of Frank Sinatra > ;))) ).
As I said, I rather imagine them growling than singing. But I've never particularly liked Sinatra (I even didn't know they spoke American English :) )
> But it's not implausible that the smaller dinosaurs had some ranges of sounds
> different from growling.
On what grounds?
> Are you too an amateur of Mongolian throat-singing? ;))))
Absolutely. It belongs to my favourites among vocal traditions (after Georgian polyphony, I must add). Jan ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>