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Originally Posted by chryuop
On a t shirt of a friend there was the writing ヒトも動物だってこと I assume it stands for ヒトも動物だということ. What is the difference from saying simply ヒトも動物だ?
I mean, I know that ということ can give the meaning of "I heard that..." or else "I mean...", but it seems to me that this is just a plain statement...maybe I am trying too much to read between the lines? 
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Both are statements but the one using ということ sounds considerably softer and indirect, which are precisely the qualities in speech that many of us were brought up to prefer.
If you would be ineterested in loose, non-literal translation, mine would be:
ヒトも動物だってこと = "Humans are animals, too, after all, ya know?"
ヒトも動物だ = "Humans are animals, too. Period."
(Hope I didn't confuse you all the more with the translations.)