The Elders Speak
Hey, peeps. I don’t have any news in the ongoing story of Openfly and her escape from Shalampax to report today, but hearing about the bonobos’ language and Openfly’s natural ability to understand and speak it brought something to mind that I hadn’t thought much about before.
If you go to the history section of the official Shalampax Web site you’ll see that it claims that the people on this island (which hadn’t yet been named at that point) didn’t have much of a language at all before Marie taught them English in 1952. According to the Web site, back then, folks here just did a lot of, “gesturing, grunting and getting unbelievably bitchy over the fact that, despite one’s best efforts, people usually didn’t have the foggiest of ideas as to what anyone else was trying to communicate.”
