wedrifid comments on Rhetoric for the Good - Less Wrong

49 Post author: lukeprog 26 October 2011 06:52PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 25 October 2011 07:08:18PM 0 points [-]

I'm trying to imagine people telling each other that and I can't help but thinking it sounds like monkeys communicating. Something to do with a single syllable with no consonant as a simple command. A little monkey at that, given that it's an 'i' not an 'o'.

Comment author: pedanterrific 25 October 2011 07:30:59PM *  4 points [-]

Lemurs telling a human to get out of their space: eee! eee! eee~!

Lemures telling a human to get out of their space: i! i! i~!

(That's why they're called lemurs.)