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Understanding What Your Dog Is Saying By Reading His Body Language ... Dogs are body language experts; to give an example, take the dogs who are especially trained to warn their owners of imminent epileptic seizures, these dogs can respond to the most subtle of bodily cues, so subtle, even the person who is about to have the seizure is unaware of....

Hamster Language - How To Interpret Your Hamster Body Language And Sounds ... Hamsters have a quite simple language: body language and vocalizations. Some of the sounds they make are ultrasonic...

German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts “beauty.” It tries to be truthful.
—Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970)

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyse the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that—but that isn’t simple.
—Louis B. Lundborg (1906–1981)