Account of Chinese government teaching language to the Yeti (Updated)

M.K. Davis has been researching the Patterson Sasquatch film for the last 14 years. He has a blog analyzing the Patterson-Gimlin footage and sometimes he post gems like the one below.

There is a linguistics expert named Tim Pulju, who uncovered documents in China detailing a government sponsored effort to teach the Chinese language to the Tibetan Yeti. What…you might say, that’s impossible. Or is it? Here’s a paper that was published while Mr. Pulju was at Michigan State University. He is currently at Dartmouth College.

It's an interesting observation of an account recorded in the fragmentary 10th-century Chinese text known as Neìge dà bá’i rén shwō Jūnggwo hwà, which translates as Preliminary Report of the Imperial Yeti Language Intercultural Understanding Project.

Read below from specgram.com.

New Directions in the Teaching
of Human Languages to Non-Humans

[...]

The bias of Western “science” is plain to any observer. Not only do most Westerners call yeti by the derogatory name “Abominable Snowmen;” there are some closed-minded bigots who go so far as to claim that yeti are mythical! The basis of this claim is that very few Westerners have seen yeti; implicit in the argument is that the indigenous human inhabitants of the Himalayas, not being Westerners, are hence not trustworthy. A non-prejudiced analyst, realizing that the local people are obviously best qualified to report on local conditions, accepts the universal report of Himalayan residents that yeti do exist. Further it is certain that while yeti are not human, they are far more similar to humans in mind and culture than are any of the great apes. If Western “science” were not so illogically hostile to the age-old wisdom of the East, it would have seen from the beginning that the best non-human candidates for human language learning are yeti, not apes and dolphins. Certainly, given the failure of ape and dolphin projects, only a muleheaded ethnocentrist could deny that it is time to eat some humble pie and embark on research that could actually be meaningful.

Read more at specgram.com

Update: We've updated this article to only include a portion of the text. Also, here's an update from M.K. Davis about the removal of the entire article from his website:

The article “New Directions in the Teaching of Human Language to Non-Humans has been removed. This is the reason why. The article, as it was seen here, was copied to me some time ago. Mr. Trey Jones has brought it to my attention that the article is not genuine in nature, but, rather, is a satirically written article that was submitted to the Website “The Speculative Grammarian”. I thank Mr.Jones for bringing this to my attention. Speculation may or may not be intended for satirical purposes. The entire article that I wrote here, about the origins of the Sasquatch is speculative, but not intended to be satirical. Evidence  for the “EXISTENCE” of the Sasquatch or Yeti, is scant at best. Much that is written about it is postulation. It’s like filling in the dots, when there are not a lot of dots to fill in. The direction that it takes you is uncertain. The connection between the Sasquatch and the Yeti is no different, but the postulation that was, that they may have a common origin, did not, and does not… hinge upon Mr.Pulju’s article alone. There were already some indicators there for that, so…that postulation remains. Mr.Pulju’s article, in its intended format, may be found here. http://specgram.com/PsQ.XVI.2/05.pulju.teaching.html  Thanks, M.K.Davis

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