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The author Mary Robinette Kowal has a cat, Elsie, who uses a button board. I’m reluctant to call it language exactly, but it is definitely a kind of communicati
by dhosek 2y ago
The author Mary Robinette Kowal has a cat, Elsie, who uses a button board. I’m reluctant to call it language exactly, but it is definitely a kind of communication.
An example is here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C48uKZ8veql/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C48uKZ8veql/
It’s interesting how words shift in meaning with the cat, so litterbox, for example, has come to be a word for anything unpleasant. Elsie also will come up with nicknames for people she encounters relatively frequently, not always complimentary.
- philipov 2y ago> so litterbox, for example, has come to be a word for anything unpleasant. That's rich. It exactly mirrors how we have come to use gastronomical words such as "disgusting" for moral opprobrium. The same parts of the limbic system are used to process both concepts. Anything that's bad could be described as 'shitty' which is about as close as we can get to the same usage.
- ChoHag 2y ago[dead]