Posted on 09/07/2014 3:27:59 PM PDT by Rashid Ibrahim
Edited on 09/07/2014 5:22:40 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
I was sent as a punishment to reality.
Car chows ... Anoreth’s dog?
Depends.
How is the Furnado anyway?
Pretty much No.
Studies of feral children, and for example the underclass of London show that lacking a good understanding of language makes thinking as we understand it very difficult.
Edgar Rice Burroughs notwithstanding, if you want to think clearly and be able to manipulate complex thoughts and ideas, you need to master at least one language, and preferably more than one, with additional support from music, mathematics, and even physical training such as in sports, or skill sets such as archery or fencing.
Gone ... an unfortunate encounter with a motor vehicle during yet another escape, this time in New Jersey. I think Anoreth is too traumatized to discuss it.
Something I read on FR a while back ... a study that showed a close correlation between the number of words a child could understand at age 5, and his or her success is school over the following several years.
Verbal processing is a key skill in civilized life. This is not to say that a person can't have manual skills without verbal processing, but the lack of words limits a person, however manually dexterous, in his access to the goods of civilization.
I thought of you today when we had a funny Spanish situation. I was over at Asuncion’s to work on some music, along with Manuel, a guitarist from Puerto Rico, and Felipe, a guitarist from Guatemala. Manuel (who is fluent in Spanish) couldn’t understand Felipe. Felipe would say something in Spanish, and Manuel would look puzzled, and then Asuncion, who is from Mexico, would say, “El hermano Felipe dice ...,” and explain it to Manuel, in Spanish, and then Manuel would understand.
Weirdness.
Awwww hell.
I hadn’t heard about that.
Now I feel like a jerk for asking.
Not your fault. I told her she owed it to the UT to inform them, given everyone’s level of concern over the brainless animal all this time.
Keep in mind also that the latest thinking in regard to what drives social creatures to become more intelligent is less the challenges they face in the environment, and more the interpersonal conflict within their own group.
Generally speaking, if you happen to be dangerously stupid, like the kind of guy who might inadvertently lure a saber-tooth back to the clan's cave by dragging a bleeding carcass all the way, then the first ones to notice will be your closest relatives, and their opinions might control which assignment you get on the next woolly mammoth hunt.
I’m sorry to hear about the loss of Piper.
I liked her antics with the cats.
” the kind of guy who might inadvertently lure a saber-tooth back to the clan’s cave”
I thought that was how housecats were invented?
And the cats’ antics with her. I’m sad, too.
Heh, good point.
Or their opinions might eliminate you from the gene pool with a thud.
In the words of my brother, in faux caveman speak: “Krogger fix Lawg wif ROCK!”
Chimpanzees have been observed to chase down and murder one of their own if he has a history of being exceptionally annoying.
When they come into adulthood, they have access to an entirely different set of social tools.
If we have the Global Economic Collapse and survival becomes tenuous, I think we’ll all learn a lot, although we may not manage to pass it on.
A GEC is guaranteed.
How bad it will be depends on when it hits, and what happens in the next few years or less prior to it.
I expect that head busting caveman style or viking huskarl axes might become useful.
The secondary measure for wealth is how well you are thought of in your community.
When all else fails, having friends is better than having money.
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