Do you think in ten or twenty years there are going to be linguists studying the language used to communicate-- that will by then be in full form--on the internet?
This language will be considered very interesting in that it will be seen as a huge step backward for humans and closer to a realistic option with which chimpanzees could communicate. What was once known as "words" will only exist on the rare occasion when an abbreviation or initialism has not yet been discovered.
This is not to mention the field day linguists will have testing chimpanzees with the phonetic spellings and pronunciations that will be in use. (I don't know if I'm using phonetic correctly here. What I mean is this: when people make up a word based on the sound of the action they are trying to describe...what's that called again? ... like swish...hold on, gotta look it up...yes! Onomatopoeia.)
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