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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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It'd be cool if my dog could talk, and I could tell him he's not in danger from the loud noises outside (lemmy.world)
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He's a guide dog, so obviously very smart in some ways, but in other ways he's very much still a dog. He's still terrified of thunder and fireworks. While he's normally aloof with occasional fits of cuddliness, when it's loud outside he tries to climb into my skin.

I wish I could tell him "You're fine, dude. The thunder is outside and you're inside" in a way he understands.

But if you'll permit me a linguistic tangent, you could take the concept of "talking dog" in a bunch of different directions.

  • Give him phonetically articulate human speech, but leave his mental faculties otherwise unchanged. He'd express his simple animal needs in a way that happens to correspond to words in a human language, and I would likewise be able to articulate simple concepts to him in a way he understands. Honestly not that far off from the array of push buttons thingy that we saw on YouTube a few years ago.

  • Make him fully sapient, but leave his vocal tract untouched, incapable of articulating human speech, but with the mental faculties to link symbols to meanings and form recursive ideas. A bunch of my constructed languages use this as a premise, talking dogs (or doglike aliens) that still sound like dogs.

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[–] toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online 5 points 15 hours ago

Be very careful with those yak milk cheese sticks. My old lady (who recently passed, poor sweetie) swallowed a massive chunk once as a pup when I didn't think it was quite time to take it away yet. She wound up with intestinal blockage and needed surgery to get it out.

Kind of amusingly though, they gave us back the cheese remnant for some reason in a bag and the little monster lunged for it to try to eat it again.