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Winnie Oakbob
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:42 pm
Post subject: Which language should I use to talk to my cows ??? |
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I'm not 100% sure if my cows understand the English language.They
could be French cows or Spanish cows, nobody knows.
So what can I do to understand my cows ?
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Nick Wagg
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:02 pm
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"Winnie Oakbob" <pie_garnishment@lycos.com> wrote in message
news:2d5631c0.0506060242.65342d22@posting.google.com...
| Quote: | I'm not 100% sure if my cows understand the English language.They
could be French cows or Spanish cows, nobody knows.
So what can I do to understand my cows ?
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<Cross-posts snipped>.
There was an autistic lady talking on Radio 4 - some programme
with Libby Purves - a few days ago who had a better rapport with
animals, particularly cattle, than people.
She provided a consultancy in this sort of thing.
Personally, I have always found that animals understand English
as well as any other language. |
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Phil C.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:36 pm
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On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 12:02:04 +0100, "Nick Wagg" <naw@transcendata.com>
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| Quote: | "Winnie Oakbob" <pie_garnishment@lycos.com> wrote in message
news:2d5631c0.0506060242.65342d22@posting.google.com...
I'm not 100% sure if my cows understand the English language.They
could be French cows or Spanish cows, nobody knows.
So what can I do to understand my cows ?
Cross-posts snipped>.
There was an autistic lady talking on Radio 4 - some programme
with Libby Purves - a few days ago who had a better rapport with
animals, particularly cattle, than people.
She provided a consultancy in this sort of thing.
Personally, I have always found that animals understand English
as well as any other language.
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I think the only certain method of understanding is total immersion in
their culture - eat grass, give milk, be obliging to the bull - that
sort of thing.
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Phil C.
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sum1
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:43 pm
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pie_garnishment@lycos.com wrote to ask:
| Quote: | I'm not 100% sure if my cows understand the English language.They
could be French cows or Spanish cows, nobody knows.
So what can I do to understand my cows ?
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I'd stick with english: there is no udder language like it, I've
herd.
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Ian |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 4:31 pm
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Nick Wagg wrote:
| Quote: | There was an autistic lady talking on Radio 4 - some programme
with Libby Purves - a few days ago who had a better rapport with
animals, particularly cattle, than people.
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Temple Grandin, probably, for the would-be Googlers out there.
Fascinating woman. Very mildly autistic ... just enough to be a genius
in her field and to not have the usual set of emotions.
George W. Russell
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Nick Wagg
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| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:12 pm
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<george.w.russell@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Nick Wagg wrote:
There was an autistic lady talking on Radio 4 - some programme
with Libby Purves - a few days ago who had a better rapport with
animals, particularly cattle, than people.
Temple Grandin, probably, for the would-be Googlers out there.
Fascinating woman. Very mildly autistic ... just enough to be a genius
in her field and to not have the usual set of emotions.
George W. Russell
Bangalore
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George, many thanks. I think I'll buy her book. |
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John of Aix
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| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:12 pm
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Winnie Oakbob wrote:
| Quote: | I'm not 100% sure if my cows understand the English language.They
could be French cows or Spanish cows, nobody knows.
So what can I do to understand my cows ?
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Cows are polyglot. Choose a language, stick to it and they'll be happy
to converse with you. Avoid the Finno-Ugaric languages as they have
difficulty with the syntax.
However, even though one can converse with a cow, it is a bit of a one
sided conversation. Our poor, drab lives cannot compare with the full
richness of theirs and so they are easily bored with our limited ways.
They tend to moo from time to time, which in cow language means "yes I
am listening, carry on" but apart from that they don't say much. |
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Phil C.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:33 pm
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On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 15:12:14 +0200, "John of Aix"
<j.murphy@libertysurf.fr> wrote:
| Quote: | Winnie Oakbob wrote:
I'm not 100% sure if my cows understand the English language.They
could be French cows or Spanish cows, nobody knows.
So what can I do to understand my cows ?
Cows are polyglot. Choose a language, stick to it and they'll be happy
to converse with you. Avoid the Finno-Ugaric languages as they have
difficulty with the syntax.
However, even though one can converse with a cow, it is a bit of a one
sided conversation. Our poor, drab lives cannot compare with the full
richness of theirs and so they are easily bored with our limited ways.
They tend to moo from time to time, which in cow language means "yes I
am listening, carry on" but apart from that they don't say much.
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We invented a fantasy that one our Shetland ponies could speak. His
conversation was limited to "Eat grass. Grass good." It passed for wit
among Shetlandkind and made him a popular after-dinner speaker.
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Phil C. |
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John of Aix
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| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:27 pm
Post subject: Re: Which language should I use to talk to my cows ??? |
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Phil C. wrote:
| Quote: | On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 15:12:14 +0200, "John of Aix"
j.murphy@libertysurf.fr> wrote:
Winnie Oakbob wrote:
I'm not 100% sure if my cows understand the English language.They
could be French cows or Spanish cows, nobody knows.
So what can I do to understand my cows ?
Cows are polyglot. Choose a language, stick to it and they'll be
happy to converse with you. Avoid the Finno-Ugaric languages as they
have difficulty with the syntax.
However, even though one can converse with a cow, it is a bit of a
one sided conversation. Our poor, drab lives cannot compare with the
full richness of theirs and so they are easily bored with our
limited ways. They tend to moo from time to time, which in cow
language means "yes I am listening, carry on" but apart from that
they don't say much.
We invented a fantasy that one our Shetland ponies could speak. His
conversation was limited to "Eat grass. Grass good." It passed for wit
among Shetlandkind and made him a popular after-dinner speaker.
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Wouldn't he have been even more popular if he had said "Drink Whisly.
Whisky good"?
I don't think you trained that animal right. |
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John of Aix
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| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:30 pm
Post subject: Re: Which language should I use to talk to my cows ??? |
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sum1 wrote:
| Quote: | pie_garnishment@lycos.com wrote to ask:
I'm not 100% sure if my cows understand the English language.They
could be French cows or Spanish cows, nobody knows.
So what can I do to understand my cows ?
I'd stick with english: there is no udder language like it, I've
herd.
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No I'm sorry. We've got to blow the horn on tails like this, its all
bull which should be cud out of all newsgroups. |
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Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 1:43 am
Post subject: Re: Which language should I use to talk to my cows ??? |
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On Monday, in article
<d81aff$1ki$1$830fa17d@news.demon.co.uk>
naw@transcendata.com "Nick Wagg" wrote:
| Quote: | Personally, I have always found that animals understand English
as well as any other language.
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Of course they understand English, if you shout it loud enough :-)
--
Brian {Hamilton Kelly} bhk@dsl.co.uk
"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu
le loisir de la faire plus courte."
Blaise Pascal, /Lettres Provinciales/, 1657 |
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David
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 2:22 pm
Post subject: Re: Which language should I use to talk to my cows ??? |
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In article <20050608.2343.60148snz@dsl.co.uk>,
Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <bhk@dsl.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | On Monday, in article
d81aff$1ki$1$830fa17d@news.demon.co.uk
naw@transcendata.com "Nick Wagg" wrote:
Personally, I have always found that animals understand English
as well as any other language.
Of course they understand English, if you shout it loud enough 
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Ah, well, then, you probably need a bull-horn.
--
http://www.dacha.freeuk.com/penny/
It was the sort of bosom which at one and the same time could
attract men like a magnet whilst keeping them at arm's length. |
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Arthur
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:35 am
Post subject: Re: Which language should I use to talk to my cows ??? |
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Winnie Oakbob wrote:
| Quote: | I'm not 100% sure if my cows understand the English language.They
could be French cows or Spanish cows, nobody knows.
So what can I do to understand my cows ?
All cows in the world understand DUTCH, so teach them Dutch. Only 1 |
thing: it needs a COW to teach tem this (wonderful) language...
Arthur (not a cow...) |
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Erick Andrews
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 5:56 am
Post subject: Re: Which language should I use to talk to my cows ??? |
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On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 22:35:33 UTC, Arthur <plc@postmark.net> wrote:
| Quote: | Winnie Oakbob wrote:
I'm not 100% sure if my cows understand the English language.They
could be French cows or Spanish cows, nobody knows.
So what can I do to understand my cows ?
All cows in the world understand DUTCH, so teach them Dutch. Only 1
thing: it needs a COW to teach tem this (wonderful) language...
Arthur (not a cow...)
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That's remarkably interesting.
I was on a dairy farm years ago up in Maine, ayuh. Down
East, actually, not far from my native tongue in Vermont.
Two of them cows had buck teeth and bellowed, "Moof".
Never could tell what language they spoke. Ayuh.
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Last I lived in England though, some bloke at my local told me
about this old bull and a young bull, up on a promintory there where
all creatures are greater than smaller.
The young bull said to the old bull (in a Yorkshire accent), "See
all those cows in the meadow? I'm going to run down there and
do one of them!"
The old bull replied, "OK, but I'm going to walk down there and
do them all!"
Ayuh, I understood that language -- real bull talk.
--
Best,
Erick Andrews
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Arthur
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:06 pm
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Erick Andrews wrote:
| Quote: | On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 22:35:33 UTC, Arthur <plc@postmark.net> wrote:
Winnie Oakbob wrote:
I'm not 100% sure if my cows understand the English language.They
could be French cows or Spanish cows, nobody knows.
So what can I do to understand my cows ?
All cows in the world understand DUTCH, so teach them Dutch. Only 1
thing: it needs a COW to teach tem this (wonderful) language...
Arthur (not a cow...)
That's remarkably interesting.
I was on a dairy farm years ago up in Maine, ayuh. Down
East, actually, not far from my native tongue in Vermont.
Two of them cows had buck teeth and bellowed, "Moof".
Never could tell what language they spoke. Ayuh.
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Last I lived in England though, some bloke at my local told me
about this old bull and a young bull, up on a promintory there where
all creatures are greater than smaller.
The young bull said to the old bull (in a Yorkshire accent), "See
all those cows in the meadow? I'm going to run down there and
do one of them!"
The old bull replied, "OK, but I'm going to walk down there and
do them all!"
Ayuh, I understood that language -- real bull talk.
Funny response, Erick! |
Arthur |
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