Hi Caffeine, some folks say , "Parrots do not really talk, just mimic human speech."
What I've read on the subject agrees with you. At least some birds are capable of learning to use human speech to communicate in a limited way.
I'm not sure that even matters. The point is that the physical apparatus that birds have works fine, so we can eliminate some of the human eating apparatus as being required for speech.
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