๐งต Do dolphins have a spoken language?
Anonymous at Mon, 6 May 2024 05:47:38 UTC No. 16161781
How advanced is it? Does it constitute a language? Will humans ever be able to learn it and communicate abstract concepts to them?
Anonymous at Mon, 6 May 2024 05:49:07 UTC No. 16161783
"Language" is, ultimately, a Human exclusive concept because the concept of "language" will always be made to fit Human communication and Human communication only. And, to be fair, Humans have a lot more to talk about than Dolphins; but at the same time if we ever met an intelligent alien species they likely wouldn't meet the definition of 'language' without some serious coincidences.
Anonymous at Mon, 6 May 2024 05:53:04 UTC No. 16161789
I could defeat a dolphin in a rap battle. Even when we figure out how to translate their shit properly I reckon I could spit more dope bars than a fucking fish.
Anonymous at Mon, 6 May 2024 05:55:19 UTC No. 16161794
>>16161789
he would just call you a nigger in a frequency 10x higher than your ears are capable of hearing
Anonymous at Mon, 6 May 2024 05:58:19 UTC No. 16161800
>>16161781
it's probably fragmented among tribes the same as human language was, each group has its own dialect. They do name their babies, and they call out their own names when they hear another group, like "Hey who are you, this is Frank"
You can't look at their brains and not notice it makes a human brain look like a dog brain. They damn well have language, and they are probably better at learning each other's languages than we are.
Anonymous at Mon, 6 May 2024 06:00:26 UTC No. 16161801
>>16161800
The complexity of dolphin brains is deceptive. They operate in a 3D environment across vast distances with little in the way of landmarks, which surprise surprise leads to a different kind of brain. The fact is that Humans have a civilization and dolphins don't.
Anonymous at Mon, 6 May 2024 06:28:18 UTC No. 16161824
>>16161783
Except that birds have language and will communicate calls, threats, food etc in their own local dialects. English lacks the word for a specific language, in spanish we would call them Lengua or Idioma, and reserve lenguaje for communication in general.
Anonymous at Mon, 6 May 2024 06:30:56 UTC No. 16161825
>>16161824
Well in English it's the reverse. "Language" refers to something with formalized rules and grammar, communication would be any social interaction that creates meaning.
Anonymous at Mon, 6 May 2024 06:33:39 UTC No. 16161828
>>16161824
>birds have language
Can they communicate abstract concepts? Can they communicate about past and present events? Can they string words together to create sentences? If not, then they don't have a language.
Anonymous at Mon, 6 May 2024 07:05:24 UTC No. 16161849
https://www.speakdolphin.com/
Anonymous at Mon, 6 May 2024 19:01:02 UTC No. 16162675
>>16161794
Kek
Anonymous at Mon, 6 May 2024 19:16:42 UTC No. 16162714
>>16161801
No fire underwater and no opposable thumbs.
How would *you* create a civilization in those circumstances?
Anonymous at Mon, 6 May 2024 20:41:59 UTC No. 16162888
>>16161825
In the real world, it is well known that on ships with crew from all over the world, a specific creole will arise that enables people to udnerstand each other but will never ever be formalized or even have rules. When they move to the next ship the creole will be different again.
Anonymous at Tue, 7 May 2024 16:00:41 UTC No. 16164116
fag
Anonymous at Tue, 7 May 2024 16:19:45 UTC No. 16164138
>>16161781
Of course, even negroids have something that resembles a spoken language.
Anonymous at Tue, 7 May 2024 16:25:18 UTC No. 16164145
>>16161828
Of course they can do it. That is how crows know who is the enemy.
Anonymous at Tue, 7 May 2024 16:58:51 UTC No. 16164168
>>16161794
I bet those dolphin faggots insult us all the time, they are yelling nigger at us right this very moment, its just that out ears did not evolve to hear such an autistic screeching.
Anonymous at Tue, 7 May 2024 21:37:22 UTC No. 16164708
>>16164168
kek
Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 07:02:56 UTC No. 16165400
>>16161781
No. Only humans do
Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 20:37:31 UTC No. 16166325
>>16161783
Absolutely vacuous statement that conceals wild assumptions about human exceptionalism.
Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 20:40:24 UTC No. 16166333
>>16161794
If any dolphoj every tired that with me I'd punch his soul at a frequency sufficient to destroy him at his core and leave him nothing more than a xitterinf fish
๐๏ธ Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 20:43:16 UTC No. 16166335
Kys
Anonymous at Thu, 9 May 2024 15:36:57 UTC No. 16167475
squeak squeak motherfucker
Anonymous at Fri, 10 May 2024 01:55:05 UTC No. 16168319
>>16166333
kek
Anonymous at Fri, 10 May 2024 02:01:55 UTC No. 16168329
>>16166325
Ooof 82 iq post my dude try again
Anonymous at Fri, 10 May 2024 02:15:38 UTC No. 16168349
>>16161801
They don't need a civilization though. They don't need shelter or farms when the sea has all they need.