Korean elephant speaks all languages!

As CNN breathlessly and credulously reports:

Korean is considered one of the hardest languages in the world to master, but an elephant in a South Korean zoo is making a good start.

Koshik, a 22-year-old Asian elephant has stunned experts and his keepers at Everland Zoo near Seoul by imitating human speech. Koshik can say the Korean words for "hello," "sit down," "no," "lie down" and "good."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/02/world/asia/south-korea-talking-elephant/

Don’t believe it?  The proof is here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwMc00DcPwE

Puis trois animateurs américains, sensiblement plus bêtes que la bête:

http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/south-korean-elephant-imitates-human-speech-1.1021558

 

Now, whether the grunts in question are indeed Korean words, we must leave to the Koreans.   But we ourselves can attest, that these same grunts represent the following words in English!

   => “no” “play” “food” “hello” “happy”

while in French they stand for

   =>  “non” “joujou” “gnamgham” “salut” “bébé”

and in German

   => “nyet” “Fahrvergnügen” “Schadenfreude” “Weltschmerz” “Zerrissenheit”

(admittedly, Koshik’s German could use some work)

and so on for every language on the planet!

Here he is speaking perfect German (albeit with a Plattdeutsch accent):

http://www.welt.de/aktuell/article110542559/Dank-Ruessel-kann-Elefant-Koshik-sprechen.html
 

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For more along these lines (including the famous Talking German Dog, who has since ceased to speak  but has taken up the violin), check this out:

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2010/12/riemann-chomsky-fido.html

For the amazing tale of the woodchuck who discovered the principles of arithmetic:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2010/12/constructivist-angelology.html

For featherless bipedal hyperpolyglots:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/01/quot-lingu-tot-homini.html

For semantic analysis of an ongoing case of child language acquisition:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/05/adventures-in-language-acquisition.html

For more wonderful stuff about our big friends the elephants:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/09/here-come-elephants.html

For something entirely unrelated, click here:

http://www.linguasacrapublishing.com/justice.html

-- OK so, so much for animals that learn peopletalk.
For the true story of the world's most famous polyglot,
who learned the speech of all the animals, click here:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/03/exciting-story.html
[Note:  Be sure to believe every word of this,
just as with the story from CNN.
"You read it on the Net -- It must be true."]