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Re: [APD] Goldfish, etc
>Sign language is a language, like all other human languages. I didn't say
> that it wasn't and I didn't mean to imply it. I intended what I wrote to
> mean that a chimpanzee communicating with symbolsl, even those very same
> ones using in human sigh language, is not using language.
>
> Marko Bucyk
OK, I have to ask, why not?
It seems this is headed towards a circular argument - the chimp isn't using
language because it's not human, and only humans can use language.
Terry S. in AZ
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