Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "NativLang" channel.

  1.  @littlefishbigmountain  The story is supposed to explain the diversity of languages, hence the idea is that God created distinct languages in an instance as a sort of psychic weapon against mankind.
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  2. Yes it does. If intelligence means anything than an creature that is able to communicate anything is more intelligent than one that can communicate almost nothing.
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  3. Same issue in German. They then added prefixes to the verb to awkwardly mend the situation.
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  4. Give me a fucking break...
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  5. Yeah several unrelated languages radiating out of Mesopotamia. In fact all peoples should then have come from there.
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  6. How the e-word l-word is currently e-wording.
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  7. Sometimes? The written word tells you almost nothing about how it's pronounced in English. 😂
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  8. That's a completely baseless assertion. How precisely did you figure out that dogs communicate something not only you don't understand, but no one could ever understand? That's some monstrous form of arrogance. I don't think you have ever even thought about what communication or meaning or understanding is.
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  9.  @Jess38044  That's completely wrong. Anything whatsoever is "intelligent" given the right circumstances and goals. Anything is dumb given sufficiently adverse circumstances. If intelligence is supposed to mean anything then it's reasoning like humans, being able to get your way in our physical world. You'd do much better to simply not speak of intelligence at all. Or to use "intelligence" as a relationship between an agent, a goal, observations and computational resources. Otherwise you're just talking nonsense.
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  10.  @magellanicspaceclouds  No, unless they're severely mentally disabled and unable to to live without constant assistance, every human you meet is vastly more intelligent than the most intelligent elephant. I don't think you have ever even thought about what you MEAN with intelligence. If intelligence is just doing ANYTHING well, then my toaster is more intelligent than you.
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  11. With the exception of dental fricatives in the pronouncing department and stuff like prepositions and adjective order.
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  12. My proposal for a tests of animal speech is to have humans solve tasks being assissted by animals that are talking to them. The humans lack information only the animal has. Both are rewarded for their combined performance. This way at least the humans communicating can't deceive themselves.
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  13. Almost every language has that. English just has it to a strong degree.
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