Maybe they can crack the code of dolphin language. But I find it amusing that, even if they do, there seems to be the underlying assumption that there is but ONE dolphin language and that cracking the code will open up communication to ALL dolphins. Uh, maybe.
What I'd think will be much more likely is that, assuming there is some kind of vocabulary/grammar thing going on between them, it's probably very regionalized and/or specific to clusters/families of dolphins--which means, once you move out of whatever that defined region/family is, just like with world languages, it all goes to hell with no group understanding another.
So we may get to talk with dolphins--but those dolphins may turn out to be but a tiny handful. Here's hoping I'm wrong.
@bosskev: It could be that all dolphin languages are derived from the same dolphin language, or that each dolphin "language" is just a different dialect of the same language.
Maybe the dolphin's have scribed their language on a giant stone with a translation to ancient Egyptian, which is where this researcher is getting his symbols from.
@Trowble (XBL/PSN): Oh, also they fight each other with their penises. And kidnap babies and kill them, so they get a chance to mate with mom. Don't forget they like to molest people too.
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What I'd think will be much more likely is that, assuming there is some kind of vocabulary/grammar thing going on between them, it's probably very regionalized and/or specific to clusters/families of dolphins--which means, once you move out of whatever that defined region/family is, just like with world languages, it all goes to hell with no group understanding another.
So we may get to talk with dolphins--but those dolphins may turn out to be but a tiny handful. Here's hoping I'm wrong.
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Maybe the dolphin's have scribed their language on a giant stone with a translation to ancient Egyptian, which is where this researcher is getting his symbols from.
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