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Re:If Parrots Can Talk, Why Can’t Monkeys? by withinboredom on Monday April 03, 2023 @06:15PM (#35432070)
You don’t need a language to communicate (ask my cat — or any cat/dog). You also don’t need words, but colloquially, “talking” means using words, not using language. Someone talking to you with random noises you can reproduce would still be called “talking” whether or not it was a language.

In other words a baby saying “milk” because it wants milk doesn’t mean you should ignore it because it isn’t using a “language.”

Re:If Parrots Can Talk, Why Can’t Monkeys? by elpocko on Monday April 03, 2023 @07:33PM (#35432925)
> (ask my cat

Ok. Hi cat. Do you need language to communicate? Plz respond.