Hi peeps, the following is the second of the transcripts of the ongoing series of conversations that Openfly is having with Marie. In this conversation, Marie tells Openfly how she taught the people of Shalampax English. Enjoy.
“After coming-to on the island now called Shalampax, I was convinced lying prone that the people there had no language whatsoever. The only sounds they made were grunts, shrieks and groans.
“Because I was unable to walk and I spent most of my first few conscious days in Shalampax under guys, I thought those were the sounds that the men there made while they were having sex. Little did I know, that wasn’t the case. The guys in Shalampax liked to talk during sex and those sounds were their language.
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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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