Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

x-post - lol! Seriously though, exactly what MatthewK said.

koko har dan arts degree tbf but

my langwage also real godd

Just do a mental replace of “sign language” with “a limited number of signs for common nouns and verbs” and calm down. Nobody’s suggesting we redefine the term “language”, that’s just what most people understand by the term, it’s not the springboard for an academic discourse. Imagine how it feels to be a neuroscientist and read daily about “your amazing brain - and you only use 10%!” (Albert Einstein / Bob Marley)

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, June 21, 2018 9:39 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

How about you imagine you're a neuroscientist and not only is “your amazing brain - and you only use 10%!” the only coverage you ever get about your discipline in any media, but when you complain about this to apparently intelligent, educated people you get told to "calm down" and "that's just what most people understand by the term 'brain'"

let's just agree Koko could've been in the current Cabinet

she wasn’t mean enough

and possibly too smart

rather, been the shining star of same xxp

If I were a neuroscientist I would never expect the general public to have the level of knowledge that I did about my chosen area of expertise and I certainly wouldn't get bent out of shape over it in the wake of a beloved animal's death.

also maura otm x2

hmm after weighing all the perspectives here i'm going to say that koko definitely understood languages and could talk in complete sentences that communicated complex thoughts

Nothing against this perfectly nice gorilla, who absolutely did not "master" any kind of language.

Obituary thread took a weird turn.

was gonna say

this should be a new tradition, we should assess each dead celebrity's capacity for language

hahaha

feel like trump's RIP thread is going to be a tough one to sort out on that front

t/s: koko vs harambe

no

It's kind of a blessing that Koko went to her grave unable to understand the prescriptivists smugly signing at her about how shitty her grasp of ASL was.

CaAL otm tho

its winehouse all over again you vold hearted bastards

fuck this phone tho

Some Vold-hearted Snapes up itt.

Does that mean meanies who are dead inside because if so then otm.

Idk I think great apes are cool regardless.

https://media.signbsl.com/videos/bsl/corpusngt/mp4/vlc-record-2015-04-08-14h24m56s-BSL_CN_lex_b.mpg-.mp4

They are very cool!

I'm going to make sure to buy a little extra column space for my obit on the offchance that anyone feels the need to 'well, actually' any of the claims made about me.

Some sad news: Charles Krauthammer has died. Our obit is coming soon.

— Paul Farhi (@farhip) June 21, 2018

Sad for whom?

couldn't even sign in gorilla the cunt

RIP Charles Krauthammer. You looked like you gave missions in GTA IV and died just now

— Dan O'Sullivan (@Bro_Pair) June 21, 2018

Farewell to a subtle mind, inquisitive spirit, and boundless imagination.

exclusive ILX footage of CK's last moments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_WEvWcVoFw

True, Koko learned to play the recorder, but she never learned *not* to play the recorder.

— Waldo Jaquith (@waldojaquith) June 22, 2018

Farewell to a subtle mind, inquisitive spirit, and boundless imagination.

RIP Koko.

you wouldn't have used that eulogy for a human if you'd have seen them throwing a turd at someone, double standards for these apes you see!

I think the eulogy was for Charles Krauthammer, whoever he is, but point taken.

koko's columns would have had a way better effect on public policy than krauthammer's.

Whether or not Koko used language is by no means a straightforward question. I’m perfectly happy with them defaulting to say they did.

I agree with mfktz -- there is a strict definition of language and Koko clearly did not use language. It has nothing to do with prescription/description either.

If y'all hustle, it may not be too late to get 'DISCLAIMER: DID NOT ACUTALLY KNOW SIGN LANGUAGE' engraved on Koko's tombstone.

is there a word for what Koko did? because people are just going to keep calling it language unless a better term is found

You mean besides 'jack shit'? I guess that's two words.

is there a strict definition of 'jack shit' and did Koko clearly do it?

I swore to myself to leave this thread alone, but for the record anyone calling themself a 'prescriptivist' or telling people off for their 'poor grammar' knows nothing about how language works. Also while I'm here, I have nothing for respect for Koko, but anthropomorphising her is imo a shitty way to appreciate an intelligent animal.

that's how I feel about furries

no shade tho

wait was Koko a prescriptivist?