1 sense we have in common with the wordless animals.
Taste
1 of our 6 senses we have in common with many of the estimated 8.7 to 16 million species of wordless animals, is taste.
This is not about the good taste or the bad taste word-users accuse each other of having. This is about the only place where taste is sensed, by our tongue’s taste buds.
How do the wordy animals respond to food?
When word-users taste food or drink, we respond with either “Mmm”, “Yum” “Wow!” or “Eww!”, depending on whether the food tastes delicious or disgusting.
“Eww!” can happen even before it is tasted.
Word-users with a distaste for anything new — also known as neophobia — typically respond with “Eww!” to foods “Mmmmhhh”-ed by word-users that find them tasty.
What many word-users tend to ignore is taste buds renew weekly. Tasting with always fresh taste buds isn’t theory. On the contrary, it’s only way to taste anything.
That said, taste can be influenced by looks, price, labels, and sound — also known as sonic seasoning — to name a few. That is why taste, like our other 5 common senses, can be fooled.
How do the wordless animals respond to food?
Near as we can tell, the different wordless animals respond to food differently.
Dogs salivate, wag their tails, whine, bark, beg, jump, or paw when they smell or see delicious food. Cats purr, meow, or rub against their owners when they sense delicious food is near. In the presence of ewwy food, cats act as if nothing in the world could interest them any less. Horses nicker, whinny, nudge or approach their feeders with enthusiasm when they anticipate food of any kind. How fish and birds respond to food, we can only guess.
Tastic or Tasteic?
Fantastic was fantestic before the word-masters that pay the grammarians’ salaries ordered them to make fantasteic unrecognisable by making it fantastic — for the sole purpose of corrupting the words to corrupting the word-users thinking.
Grammar is the worst thing ever to have happened to words. Yet we even name our schools Grammar. Of course, Grammar isn’t the only name we give to schools. We also name them Religious, Home, Primary, High, Pre (Kindergarten), Special, Charter, Montessori, Tech, Alternative, International, Boarding, Mime, Online, Art, Professional, Dance, Paint, and Music, to name a few.
The only name we don’t give schools is for what’s in the beginning, the one and only reason we build schools for in the first place: Word.
There ain’t a Word School to be found in the whole wide world, and if the universe also builds schools, not in the whole wide universe either.
I think that’s rather funny. Don’t you think that’s rather funny, too?
“Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.” – Bill Watterson
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About fantastic… funny that you find the word “taste*in it. Fantastic like fantaisie or fantome in French have latin and greek roots and used to be spelled with ph (phantaisie). At a point,your friends the grammarians decided to change ph into f probably to facilitate the writing …
Several things. You can warn me that a word is coming by saying the word _____. You can put taste in hyphens, it’s still a word (a word couldn’t be anything else if it tried). I don’t find tasti in taste, I see tasti in taste because tasti I don’t know when I’m looking at it, but taste I do every day. The word-masters that pay the grammarians are not friends of mine, neither of them. I speak neither latin nor greek. If translators were missing when English words were invented, that is what Tyndale and Shakespeare are all about, unless you know what was in charge of making taste tasti personally of course. What do you think is important, facilitate writing or facilitate knowing? Do you win if you know how to write or if you know what you’re writing about? If the former, don’t stop writing tasti. But you know well to tell you that, you don’t need me, for that you went to school.
Thank you for this reaction and sorry about the grammarians being your friends, it was supposed to be a joke because I know by now that you don’t like them. I dont’ speak latin nor greek either, but as I heard you say a few times, words didn’t appear suddenly, from nowhere. Someone invented them so they have roots somewhere. Should we rather ignore about it??
For me to thank you for your reaction in turn! Yes, by all means, forgive and forget is the right thing to do, a golden rule 🙂