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Scientists Discover a 'Phonetic Alphabet' Used by Sperm Whales, Moving One Step Closer to Decoding Their Chatter (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sure it can work out the structure of language but without context will it ever be able to decrypt the actual meaning?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Correct, no one REALLY knows anything until you can reliably “say” sound X and, I guess, observe them do reaction Y which would suggest it means word Z. I guess because I don’t know because I’m not a xenolinguist which also no known human is one of those yet

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

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