> 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

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.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvP0TD-Cr3o>

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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