Dear George,
I live in a big metropole and, I humbly must admit I live the life of the riches!
Really, I am a rescue who got the chance to live in a Four Season Hotel suite!
But, that�s not the reason I�m writing to you! The reason is that I�m afraid I�m losing my mind and I don�t know if it�s because of the luxurious life I�m living or if it�s because the electro-magnetic/microwave pollution of the big city or what! How am I manifesting my symptoms? Simply�.I think there is a Tower of Babel �.in my head!You see�Italian is my mother tongue, my mummy speaks French and my daddy speaks English. They have friends who speak other languages. When we have company �everybody is talking to me in their mother tongue and I DO UNDERSTAND them all!
Isn�t that crazy? How can I understand all these foreign languages?
George, can you explain this to me before I completely lose my mind? Or is it that we are so advanced that cat language transcend any other languages?
Completely confused
Signore Bianco
Dear Signore Bianco,
Of course you understand what humans are saying - in so far as it is worth bothering about. The feline communication system is multi-faceted involving scent, vocalising and body language, far more advanced than the human one. Using those three senses we read our humans. (Admittedly like reading a book for very young kittens as most of their language is unnessary blah).
We read their body language much better than they read it. We read their tone of voice with an ability much better than theirs. We read the way their scent changes with their emotions and we read the family mixture of scent - hers, his, and mine.We can detect if they have been stroking another cat half an hour ago or which supermarket they went to (they smell different).
Human beings only understand vocalisations. And because their other senses just don't work, they have to do an awful lot of vocalising in different languages. But we read what is behind or underneath the words: so we don't have to bother with the exact way they vocalise. Much of what they say is very boring anyway. Poor nose blind creatures!
Yours
George.
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