--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> 
> wrote:
<snip>
> > I would say instead that you *assumed* they were not 
> > available to you. Therefore they weren't. 
> 
> Hang on-- Broadening the discussion beyond human form, would you 
> also say that a chimpanzee doesn't speak English because of some 
> self-imposed limitation? Where do you draw the line between self-
> imposed limitations and physiologically based limitations? 

Heck, Jim, there's a bunch of chimpanzees who
have transcended this limitation and are holding
forth on this very forum.

;-)


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