They say talking

talking to your plants

is healthy. So I did,

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and after about

three weeks of talking,

to my surprise,

the plants began to pick

up a few words

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They’d say things like,

“Hello, George”,

“Water, please, George”

and,

“George, tell me about photosynthesis”

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But I am not dumb,

this is not

so much a sign of

intelligence

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as it is

the rote

memorization

of sounds