Re: OT: Origin of names (WAS: Re: Proto-Uralic?)

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à JS Bangs :
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>> I would love for the dolphin language to be deciphered. The linguistic
>> possibilities it would open up are staggering, not to mention the
>> cultural, religious, and philosophical conversations we might have. (This
>> is assuming, of course, that the dolphins are willing to talk and have
>> something interesting to say.)
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> Well, I've read many observations of people working with dolphins and
> saying that it often looks to them like the dolphins are trying to tell us
> things, and that they sometimes even get annoyed that we don't understand
> ;))) .
Heck, my cat acts like that *all the time*.