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From: dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu (David Swanson)
Subject: Re: Languages: Hard, Harder, Hardest
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In article <4tns2i$k39@panix2.panix.com>
gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch) writes:

> Oh, that can be done without language, too, although count
> on prep school to think otherwise.
> 
> What you need language for is lying. 

You can lie without language.  Chimps do it.  And I didn't go to prep
school.


David
