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Old 12-14-2009, 08:21 PM   #105
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Default Re: Is Transhuman Space a "silly" genre?

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Originally Posted by Xplo View Post
This is only true if you define "language" as requiring a sophisticated, standardized lexicon, conversational speech, oral tradition*, or some other feature that dog communication doesn't generally exhibit.
There is a well understood definition of language in the field of linguistics, which quite clearly does not apply to anything that dogs are capable of.

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