Kliban's Cats by B. Kliban for March 23, 2023

That’s one strong vine!

… what cats imagine they’d do if they finally catch that strand of yarn you dangle.

I have the perfect song for this qat: Tarzan Stripes Forever.

Cow-A-BUNGA! Wooooooosh!

Gotta love the abstract background.

Qat of the Wild

Catzan!

Watch out for that cliff!

Gotta love a cat in a leopard print loin cloth

What a swinger! :D

How many different colors are in this frame? Winner get’s a can of cat food.

Can someone please show the cat the proper way to repel down a cliff face.

Watch out for that tree!

Tarzcat

Speaking of people who live in jungles, in Malaysia a new language, temoprarily named “Jedek”, has been discovered that seems to relate the socio-politico-economic aspects of the speakers’ culture to that of the !Kung San of the Kalahari:

“The community in which Jedek is spoken is more gender-equal than Western societies, there is almost no interpersonal violence, they consciously encourage their children not to compete, and there are no laws or courts. There are no professions either, rather everyone has the skills that are required in a hunter-gatherer community. This way of life is reflected in the language. There are no indigenous words for occupations or for courts of law, and no indigenous verbs to denote ownership such as borrow, steal, buy or sell, but there is a rich vocabulary of words to describe exchanging and sharing.”

If they can do it, so could we. I’m thinking of the “women’s languages” that have often been invented and used, from “Nueshu”, created as a purely written language in Hunan about 1000 years ago, to “Láadan” created by the late linguist and writer Suzette Haden Elgin for use in her dystopian novels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwHWbsvgQUE

The background is some amazing artwork!