On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Bruce  Johnson
<xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
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>> On Sep 5, 2015, at 3:03 AM, Greg Chalik <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> So what alternatives are there to non-human cultural naming conventions?
>> I'd say this is subject to how the species communicates.Also, how the society is structured
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> consider, if you will, an intelligent race of invertebrates akin to squid, octopus or cuttlefish, and how they might communicate via optical patterns not sonic ones.
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> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvP0TD-Cr3o>
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> Now imagine the first contact…from THEIR point of view : “This THING! it does not speak, it shows no emotion! All it does is <indecipherable weird flashing patterns that means ‘thing that causes pressure waves before it attacks’>, KILL them all!” because that race long ago exterminated the echolocating animals that would feed upon their ancestors...
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Kinda like Hiver hand signs, but full body images?