What’s your definition of language?
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SSJMarx@lemm.ee 1 month agoThat’s cool as hell and animals definitely have all kinds of methods of communication that I’m sure we haven’t figured out yet - but it’s not language.
candybrie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
overcast5348@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Okay, I’ll bite.
Why isn’t it language? And how do you define that a method of communication qualifies to be called a language?
Also, what would you call a method of communication that lies somewhere in between “follow the pheromones” and “modern human comms”?