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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