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...your livelihood depended on a talking gorilla, you'd stretch the data too. So when an America Online chat with Koko, billed as a gorilla who can communicate with humans through sign language, quickly devolved into a Dada exercise, Dr. Francine Patterson, Koko's sign-language teacher, used some pretty impressive logic to expand her simian friend's limited communication skills. Here's a partial transcript...
...Patterson: We had earlier discussion about colors today...
...Patterson: Nipple rhymes with people, she doesn't sign people per se, she was trying to do a "sounds like...
...Patterson: She has fine hair...
...Patterson: People give her her favorite foods...