While Nim was in New York, Terrace believed he was learning sign language. But in reviewing the data, Terrace came to a conclusion that surprised almost everyone involved: Nim, he said, was not using language at all. Terrace said that he changed his mind when watching videotapes of Nim (in his classroom). Language requires the use of sentences, and Nim didn’t use sentences. Though Nim recognized and used signs, Terrace said he did not initiate conversation. When Nim combined signs, they tended to be highly repetitive and filled with “wild cards”—words like ME, HUG, NIM, and MORE. For example, Nim’s longest utterance, 16 signs, was: “Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you.” The videotapes, Terrace argued, proved that Nim mimicked his teachers and used signs strictly to get a reward, not unlike a dog or horse.

And he’s not just a talker! Remember when he ripped his opponents’ dicks off during the TV debate? Finally someone with some guts

Top translation and you’re super nice to have taken the time to write the original text.

However I don’t think the translation was necessary: everybody on lemmy obviously speaks flüssig German.

That world, that wonderful utopic world… we could weaponize it!

Claude Lévi-Strauss theorised that human progress actually happens without a clear goal and doesn’t follow a straight line, but rather goes in leaps, changing direction…

See Race and History chap. 5

Surely these alpha brains were discussing this!

If you, an obviously barbaric and backwards race, don’t want to be hated by us elves (models of perfection), why are you so comically inferior? That doesn’t make sense.

“John Smith”? Doesn’t sound like a local name to me! Yeah don’t bother with the Dakota people ancestry either. They aint from around here. Oh you claim the land belongs to Paleoindian people called ‘Ugluk’ or ‘Kroar’? Well fuck off, glyptodonts should rule this place.

You claim he’s not a Great Leader and yet he’s elected with 112% of the votes? And he doesn’t even boast about the 136% voters turnout, because he’s so humble. Please explain to me how a Moderate Leader could do this??? Or even a Slightly Greater Than Average Leader? Only a Great Leader could achieve this 💯 💪 🇰🇵

I know this sounds cartoonishly evil, but please consider how the unemployment rate went down drastically within this subpopulation.

Now about my newest idea ‘tunnel-sized toddlers with claymore mines’

I’ve heard Sir Christopher Lee declined to play her part in Peter Jackson’s Barbie biopic. Too violent. “Ah Peter, do you know what it’s like to eat the mandibular nerve of a nazi soldier in order to replenish your forces when you have been dropped behind enemy lines? It’s a messy business, but it’s necessary. I had to do it, but I didn’t do it happily… in the beginning at least. Oh yes Peter. Anyway, do you know why we called Barbie “the plastic girl”? She would place explosives in very clever places. The human body holds so many secrets.”

trained to run around a forest

Easiest dog training ever done

It is, of course, not the only island of Slovenia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Slovenia

Gentle reminder that Henry Kissinger is still dead