There are many inanimate objects we wish could say things. Things like trees or walls or cars. But even if they could talk, would we be able to understand them? We are surrounded by talking objects through the magic of computer animation, but they usually talk in something resembling English or another intelligible language. But that's silly. It would seem natural to have them speak in languages inherent to their form, squeaks and whirs, creaks and whooshes.
There are things that can be said only in one language. The words and how they fit together convey something deeper that just doesn't work any other way. Expressing complete metal fatigue as a car in some car language could potentially be very profound and/or disturbing. It's kind of fun to imagine what a language of trees would be like and what they would even talk about. Course that's been done. Think Tolkien's Ents. But what about your house, or jeep, or the lawn gnome in the back?
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