The subjects are proceeding well in their langauge training. It is punishingly slow. I had had hopes that we would eventually confer on their species’ new string theory of there being 11 dimensions and point out the error in mathematics that would demonstrate there are only 8. Sigh. Their level of preoccupation seems to be more in keeping with a physical string that they jerk about.

Perhaps it was too much to hope. A large part of the time we have to dumb-down our speech speaking slowly and loudly and gesture by circling their bodies without own to get across the simple message that there is no water.