http://www.aloveofwords.com/2009/10/08/koko-the-gorilla/ words from a linguistics-obsessed word-origin-seeking bookworm Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.aloveofwords.com/2009/10/08/koko-the-gorilla/comment-page-1/#comment-3929 Andrew Mon, 15 Aug 2011 03:52:26 +0000 http://www.aloveofwords.com/2009/10/08/koko-the-gorilla/#comment-3929 I have heard of Koko in Nip/Tuck and remember hearing about her here and there in school. I think she does use language to communicate with her caretaker. Who's to say faking means she doesn't understand? Isn't that what people do all the time? I have heard of Koko in Nip/Tuck and remember hearing about her here and there in school. I think she does use language to communicate with her caretaker. Who’s to say faking means she doesn’t understand? Isn’t that what people do all the time?

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