Something I once read is that different cats don’t seem to use exactly the same noise to mean the same thing, ie, one cat might use a certain sort of meow to show that it is hungry, but another cat might use a similar meow to show that they want attention. Further, that wild cats usually stop making many such noises after they grow up, but domestic ones keep using them to communicate with people. If this is true, then the cat noises don’t really represent a cat language as such since each individual cat would have it’s own different set of vocabulary it develops in an attempt to get humans to understand it, being forced to resort to being all dramatic and acting like a kitten to get their message across because humans are sometimes too clueless to understand their body language.
Wait… you guys can’t understand your cats?
OP doesn’t know what the word “jargon” means.
Or they’ve only heard jargon from outside their expertise.
I mean. Is the word “jargon” jargon for people who are into linguistics?
Yeah, nonsense would’ve been a better word. Or word salad, it doesn’t get said enough.
I think you were looking for “gibberish.”
Cats just meow to get our attention. Fun fact do you know that meowing is them mimicking the sounds of a baby?
Not a human baby (how could they, most cats have never seen a human baby), but as a kitten they meow to their parents to get food etc. So we’re their parents now and I guess they never really grew up and became independent.
Cats meow in the same register that human babies cry. They aren’t saying that cats are specifically trying to cry like a human baby, but that cats as a species have grown over thousands of years to meow in the same pitches as human babies.
Well adult cats raised around humans figure out what meows work the best and that is one that sounds like baby
