• starman2112
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    9 months ago

    I assume the earliest words in any animal language are slurs for humans

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I kinda think you might be right. If you have an animal that has nouns wouldn’t one of those nouns be for the biologists that keep hanging around it and interacting?