Alaric began his contact with it through numerical patterns, didn't he? I wonder how much math it knows, and whether it would respond to mathematical representations. Can you get it to understand an X-Y coordinate system and then associate the x-axis with time, the y-axis with amplitude?
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Re: we do have a resident linguist
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