Peeps, if you’ve been reading Shalampax Speaks for some time, you’ve likely been wondering what happened to Openfly. To be perfectly honest, so have I. For about four months now, neither she nor Doctor Don have responded to any of my many emails.
I was beginning to think that the ship they were on had sunk with all hands—not to mention all other body parts—lost. But no, Openfly is very much alive and she’s finally gotten back in touch with me.
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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.”
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Hi, peeps. As you have no doubt come to expect, I have more to tell in the ongoing Openfly tale. Dr. Don sent me a preliminary report based on only a couple of days of observing Openfly and the bonobo.
Unlike some of his other correspondence, I was able to understand this one. So, to save you time, I’ll encapsulate the report rather than reprint the whole excruciatingly long, boring document. (If this is only a preliminary report, we’re going to have to hijack more Internet bandwidth before he sends the full final report.)
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Gee peeps, it’s beginning to look as if I’m never again going to have time to report on anything but Openfly’s ongoing escapade. I wish I could convince one or two of the other bloggers here at Shalampax Speaks to pick up at least some of this story. Fat chance of that.
Oh well, here’s the latest scoop.
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