It is sometimes said || said sometimes: animals don't speak, because they haven't || lack the necessary intellectual capacities. And this means: ‘they don't think, therefore they don't speak’. But the fact is that they just don't speak. Or better || rather: they don't use language. (If we disregard || except the most primitive forms of language.) Commanding || Giving orders, asking questions, recounting || describing, prattling, belong to our natural history just as walking, eating, drinking, playing do. (It makes no difference here whether the speaking is done with the mouth or done with the hand.)