Re: Non-human languages

Actually, you can make a stzrt with reading Oliver Sacks' "The Man Who Mistook
His Wife for a Hat", and then plunge into neuroscience witht eh help of some
of the neuroscientists he mentions in the bibiography at the end of the book.

That'll get you started, and it is fascinating.

Wesley Parish

On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:01, you wrote:
> I've wondered about, but never actually made, a language for a
> chameleon-like creature that can make patterns and textures on its skin.
> One could imagine something similar for creatures made of fire or smoke.
>
> Some sort of telepathic communication would be hard to envision because we
> know so little about how anything thinks.
--
Clinesterton Beademung - in all of love.
Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."