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

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From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: Origin of names (WAS: Re: Proto-Uralic?)


> En réponse à wayne chevrier :
>
>
> >Recent research shows that dolphins have names for each other(used to
label
> >their calls and to call young, etc.)
>
> I've heard of that. I've also heard that studies showed the sounds used by
> dolphins could really be classified as a language, with by themselves
> meaningless "phonemes" which put together formed meaningful words, put
> together to form sentences. We still don't understand the dolphin language
> (or rather language*s*, because dialectical differences have already been
> recognised), but we already know it's a complicated language, and many
> scientists say it can convey abstract ideas too.
Now that would be great, having information on the Dolphin language(s).  It
would open up a whole new a-posteriori Conlanging field.  And what would be
even weirder is if we had another species as intelligent as us sitting right
under our noses, and we never realised it.

> Christophe Grandsire.
>
> http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
>
> You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.
>

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