Can you please explain the bold?
Leonard: I want to get to know Penny’s friends, I just, I don’t know how to talk to these people.
Sheldon: Well, I actually might be able to help.
Leonard: How so?
Sheldon: Like Jane Goodall observing the apes, I initially saw their interactions as confusing and unstructured, but patterns emerge, they have their own language if you will.
Leonard: Go on.
Sheldon: Well, it seems that the newcomer approaches the existing group with the greeting “How wasted am I?” which is met with an approving chorus of “Dude.”
Leonard: Then what happens?
Sheldon: That’s as far as I’ve gotten.
Tara2 That’s as far as I’ve gotten. I have not learned anything more about communication between apes than what I've already told you. How far did you get?
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Tara2That’s as far as I’ve gotten.
I have not learned anything more about communication between apes than what I've already told you.
How far did you get? ~ To what extent did you progress in doing the project that you were doing?
Sheldon was learning ape language, but he didn't get very far. He was only able to translate a few words from ape