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If you could verbally speak (in your preferred language) with any species still living on Earth, which species would you choose to communicate with? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 days ago by Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Bottlenosed dolphins and then orcas.

Orcas are the smartest creatures on the planet,
so they'll have a lot to say.

But bottlenosed dolphins are animals I think we could actually learn their language most easily from, due to their interest in us.

And I would choose to communicate them in their language, because that's the most realistic.
And I've written down a method on how to do exactly that.

You just create an underwater vending machine for them that lists a couple of random nonsensical words dolphins are able to repeat, any of these nonsensical dolphin words is on order of a toy/food that if dolphin were to repeat, would be similar to a button press on the vending machine, delivering the toy of food item. Then after they have learned how to mimic these words, you then have the vending machine add an additional function where the dolphins can change the settings of the vending machine, thus giving the dolphins the opportunity to reprogram the spoken orders of the vending machine.

The idea is that they will naturally start to reprogram the vending machine to turn the random words into words of their own language.