Dear George,
I live in a big metropole and, I humbly
must admit I live the life of the riches!
Really, I am a rescue who got the chance to
live in a Four Season Hotel suite!
But, that’s not the reason I’m writing to
you! The reason is that I’m afraid I’m losing my mind and I don’t know if it’s
because of the luxurious life I’m living or if it’s because the
electro-magnetic/microwave pollution of the big city or what! How am I
manifesting my symptoms? Simply….I think there is a Tower of Babel ….in my
head!You see…Italian is my mother tongue, my mummy speaks French and my daddy
speaks English. They have friends who speak other languages. When we have
company …everybody is talking to me in their mother tongue and I DO UNDERSTAND
them all!
Isn’t that crazy? How can I understand all
these foreign languages?
George, can you explain this to me before I
completely lose my mind? Or is it that we are so advanced that cat language
transcend any other languages?
Completely confused
Signore Bianco
Dear Signore Bianco,
Of course you understand what humans are saying - in so far as it is worth bothering about. The feline communication system is multi-faceted involving scent, vocalising and body language, far more advanced than the human one. Using those three senses we read our humans. (Admittedly like reading a book for very young kittens as most of their language is unnessary blah).
We read their body language much better than they read it. We read their tone of voice with an ability much better than theirs. We read the way their scent changes with their emotions and we read the family mixture of scent - hers, his, and mine.We can detect if they have been stroking another cat half an hour ago or which supermarket they went to (they smell different).
Human beings only understand vocalisations. And because their other senses just don't work, they have to do an awful lot of vocalising in different languages. But we read what is behind or underneath the words: so we don't have to bother with the exact way they vocalise. Much of what they say is very boring anyway. Poor nose blind creatures!
Yours
George.
Buongiorno Signore Bianco, you understand so many languages because we, the cats, translate "sounds" to "vibrations"! We do understand "frequency" unlike humans who translate "sounds" to vowels and consonants! Of course, this is only in my humble opinion :-)
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Carla, the tuxedo cat
Wow! Nice view! Can I visit?
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Hmm! Just curious where you live! It doesn't look like Switzerland but must be somewhere where everybody speaks 3-4 languages!
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Oh, yes! I can smell a human! I can smell a rat!
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Tom
I had a cat that could read my mind. He always knew when I was going to put him in the cage so I could take him to the vet or force an antibiotic down his throat. Some cats can do that. They have mind-reading abilities, which are better than understanding a spoken language, because they can understand you no matter which language you use, and because when humans talk, sometimes they lie. But when reading your mind, they only see the truth.
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