. . "Yes - speaking via gesture and organs other than the tongue is *exactly* the sort of thing I wanted to try and think about, so I will take another look at that pm piece you and Peggy wrote.P.S. That bit from Crane re: hunting cries (sparse, simplified syntax) reminds me a lot of the work of on human contact linguistics and pidgin languages - I wonder if hunting cries can be conceived as a sort of" . .