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this is purely hypothetical

mad scientist linguistics this is purely hypothetical Adam Aleksic Apr 24, 2024 279 17 14 Share I’m feeling crazy so let’s transplant a human brain into a dog’s body to see if it can produce language. Let’s ignore the medical or logistical implications of such a procedure. We’re much more interested in studying the linguistic part, so we’ll assume the operation went perfectly. We have successfully placed the functioning brain of an adult human (let’s call him Steve) inside a dog. Oh shit, I’m a dog , Steve would probably be thinking right about now. Then he would try to talk, and that’s when h

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