From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an ceathrú lá de mí Iúil, scríobh Tilde:   
      
    > Not a case of a feral child but...   
    >   
    > https://gulfnews.com/world/offbeat/rescued-8-year-old-thai-bo   
   -raised-among-dogs-only-communicates-by-barking-1.500185511   
    >   
    > An eight-year-old boy from Thailand’s Laplae district has been rescued   
   from   
    > a drug-ridden home where he was raised in near-total isolation and learned   
    > to communicate only by barking.   
    >   
    > Authorities found the boy living in squalor, surrounded by six dogs, after a   
    > school principal and local activists raised the alarm, according to a report   
    > in Thaiger.   
    >   
    > The child, referred to as “Boy A” for legal reasons, had not attended   
   school   
    > for over two years.   
      
   I wonder did he attend school at any point? I would expect him to have some   
   (human) language ability if he did. He may be choosing not to use what language   
   he has for very understandable psychological reasons.   
      
   --   
   ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /   
   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)