I accidentally found a new and unique way to insult Hawaiians today.
In a study group I was in we were discussing how some animals have more phonemes (or sounds made from the mouth) than some human languages. The English language has about 42 of them. We were not sure, but we remembered that the average dog can recreate about 20 or more of their own. Then we noted that it was funny how Hawaiian has only 13 phonemes.
We were laughing how the teacher was saying in class that dogs were capable of more complex speech than the Hawaiians. He obviously meant that as a way to help us appreciate the complexities of speech. While laughing at that a girl who is Hawaiian through and through gave me a glare that was reminiscent of the time that the native Hawaiians discovered that Captain Cook was not a God. It is best explained in pidgeon as "Stink Eye."
If you want to see that look, go ahead and tell a Hawaiian that dogs are smarter than them with the logic explained above. The results will be enlightening.
3 comments:
You'd think you were smarter than that!!! You know how poly's can be!
Yeah, because all other people LIKE to be told that dogs are smarter than they are.
Dog can and in most cases are very smart and it's been said that they are man's best friends but ya, nobody likes to be told that a dog or any animal in that case is smarter than them. It's kinda goes along with my dog is cuter than you! Not very nice huh?
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