hmgwarner wrote: > > Wow it's not often you find a dog that understands both Corsican and > Dutch? > I've met a great many dogs on Corsica, and ALL of them speak Dutch as well as the local gibberish. They follow commands like "come", "get lost", "want some food?" and "wanna play?" better than most humans. All of them follow philosophical rants with interest, while none of them finds a need to ask stupid questions. If this get too complicated, they might interrupt with a "woof", inviting the speaker to explain things in terms of balls and sticks instead of quantum mechanics. (On a sidenote: Teaching either a dog or a human French should be considered abuse. No rational brain can develop with a language that can't count to 90 but needs to resort to "four-times-twenty-plus-ten".) I haven't tried whether all dogs speak English too. For the moment, I assume they don't, so I can conclude that Dutch is as close to a universal language as one can get. Dutch is pretty efficient too. The whole explanation above can be summarized in Dutch as "onzin". *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Jun 27 2010 - 13:59:17 PDT
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