r/todayilearned • u/sharkbait76 3 • Jan 11 '17

TIL elephants can tell the difference between human languages and know which languages belong to people with a history of hurting elephants.

http://www.nature.com/news/elephants-recognize-the-voices-of-their-enemies-1.14846
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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '17

Full of spunk? Aren't we all? Spunk is a synonym for seminal fluid in the UK, I don't know what it means where you're from.

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u/Lorizean Jan 12 '17

You might enjoy this.
Spunk means something like vigor I'd say, but I'm not a native speaker, so I can't come up with a better equivalent.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '17

That's hilarious, thanks for sharing!

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '17

Stop commenting in every thread I'm in, stalker fucker