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Discussion Groups / British English / June 2005Which language should I use to talk to my cows ???
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'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. >> I'm not 100% sure if my cows understand the English language.They >> could be French cows or Spanish cows, nobody knows. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >Personally, I have always found that animals understand English >as well as any other language. 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.  SignaturePhil C. > 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 > > There was an autistic lady talking on Radio 4 - some programme > > with Libby Purves - a few days ago who had a better rapport with [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > George W. Russell > Bangalore George, many thanks. I think I'll buy her book. On Monday, in article <d81aff$1ki$1$830fa17d@news.demon.co.uk> > 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 :-) SignatureBrian {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 > On Monday, in article > <d81aff$1ki$1$830fa17d@news.demon.co.uk> > > 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 :-) Ah, well, then, you probably need a bull-horn. Signaturehttp://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. 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. SignatureIan > pie_garnishment@lycos.com wrote to ask: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I'd stick with english: there is no udder language like it, I've > herd. 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. > 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. >> I'm not 100% sure if my cows understand the English language.They >> could be French cows or Spanish cows, nobody knows. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >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. SignaturePhil C. >>> I'm not 100% sure if my cows understand the English language.They >>> could be French cows or Spanish cows, nobody knows. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > conversation was limited to "Eat grass. Grass good." It passed for wit > among Shetlandkind and made him a popular after-dinner speaker. 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. > 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...) > > I'm not 100% sure if my cows understand the English language.They > > could be French cows or Spanish cows, nobody knows. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > 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. --- 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. SignatureBest, Erick Andrews delete bogus to reply >>>I'm not 100% sure if my cows understand the English language.They >>>could be French cows or Spanish cows, nobody knows. [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Ayuh, I understood that language -- real bull talk. Funny response, Erick! Arthur > > > I'm not 100% sure if my cows understand the English language.They > > > could be French cows or Spanish cows, nobody knows. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Two of them cows had buck teeth and bellowed, "Moof". They couldn't have been Dutch cows. They say "boo". Perhaps they are scarier than other cows. |
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