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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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Sure it can work out the structure of language but without context will it ever be able to decrypt the actual meaning?
"Fuck that boat."
"Yeah, let's go sink it."
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