Archive for the ‘Animal communication’ Category

Bird rage

August 4, 2009

Bird communication and taboo language, all in one strip:

(Hat tip to Victor Steinbok.)

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Talking cats

March 25, 2009

Nico Muhly’s latest posting on his blog is mostly about language, but it also supplies a weird YouTube clip, “She’s a Talker”. Students of English dialect phonetics might also enjoy the variety of realizations of the accented vowel in talker.

(Hat tip to Ned Deily.)

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Swearing like a parrot

February 13, 2009

From Stephan Pastis’s Pearls Before Swine:

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