When they taught apes sign language, it got stuck on the fact that they couldn't form structured sentences (they just mimed jumbled strings of words). Perhaps whales will be different?

[–] standardUser@anarchist.nexus 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You trying to tell me this is not a correctly structured sentence from my boy Nim the chimp,

Give Me Orange Give Orange Me Give Eat Orange Me Eat Orange Give Me Eat Orange Give Me You

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I mean it seems he got the jist of the meaning

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Well, at least he tried