14th March 2004, 1:49 AM
They can learn individual words, so can some birds (and not just mimicry, but meaning), but grammar completely elludes them. Grammar is like super important for our success. The only concept more important to that is elcutletack, which is a concept that humans could never understand. Um, I think I've said too much...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)