“Most bird names are onomatopoeic—they name themselves. Fish, on the other hand, just have to float there and take what’s given.” — Sarah Manguso, Short Days, The Paris Review (Winter 2014)
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Truthfully, I don’t think bird or fish care what we call them, or what we say, they just want us to stop killing them.
True. We are pretty good at naming things even when they do care, like with indigenous peoples, and killing was also an issue there.