Only tangentially related, but your post reminded me of Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Author of Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of Therolinguistics”

Only tangentially related, but your post reminded me of Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Author of Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of Therolinguistics”: https://xenoflesh.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/ursula-k.-le-guin.pdf https://xenoflesh.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/ursula-k.-le-g...