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Pool Knowledge To Find The Origins Of Language
New Scientist ^
| 9-26-2006
| John Pickrell
Posted on 09/26/2006 4:14:26 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
09/26/2006 4:14:27 PM PDT
by
blam
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/26/2006 4:18:49 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
There's a Dan Quayle joke in here somewhere...
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posted on
09/26/2006 4:19:55 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
Maybe if we pool our knowledge we can find it.
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posted on
09/26/2006 4:29:49 PM PDT
by
SuzyQue
(Remember to think.)
To: blam
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posted on
09/26/2006 4:35:33 PM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: blam
How many millions in grants do they 'need' for this groundbreaking work?
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posted on
09/26/2006 4:39:32 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: blam
"The biological basis of how people speak, listen and comprehend and how all of this mental equipment evolved is largely mysterious. With many psychological abilities, researchers can study animals to gain insights, but this is not possible with language as no animal communication systems are anywhere near as complex as ours."
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Good God, yall, you all don't seem to get the gist of human communication. As well, you all don't seen to comprehend the temporal reality of
"determinism" -- bless your sweet innocent hearts.
Yet, one day, assuming your shallow flippant heart is still pointed toward the moon , you will rise above your inadequacies and once again you will become a man among men.A creature worthy of being a man who has been to the moon.
I believe this because I am a believer.
Bless your hearts.
To: SuzyQue
"Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever."
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posted on
09/26/2006 4:54:58 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: blam
Here's an idea on the origin of languages......
Gen 11:1 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.
Gen 11:2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
Gen 11:3 And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.
Gen 11:4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth."
Gen 11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
Gen 11:6 And the LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
Gen 11:7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech."
Gen 11:8 So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.
From Genesis, in the Holy Bible.
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posted on
09/26/2006 5:26:39 PM PDT
by
bperiwinkle7
( In the beginning was the WORD,,,,,,,,,,,,,,)
To: blam
By gathering together studies of developmental disorders that cause communication impairments such as autism or Downs syndrome they hope to provide new clues about the origins of language. The dumb leading the ... dumb.
To: billorites
Deep end of the pool, obviously.
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posted on
09/26/2006 5:36:57 PM PDT
by
SuzyQue
(Remember to think.)
To: blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; ...
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posted on
09/26/2006 10:28:49 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(updated my FR profile on Saturday, September 16, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: blam
The biological basis of how people speak, listen and comprehend Aside from biological observations such as serotonin levels, the proposal that there is a biological basis of language already determines the results.
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posted on
09/27/2006 8:08:39 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: the final gentleman
Have a problem with science?
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posted on
09/27/2006 12:17:21 PM PDT
by
stands2reason
(ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
To: bperiwinkle7
Not really. When did that supposedly happen?
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posted on
09/27/2006 12:17:53 PM PDT
by
stands2reason
(ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
To: stands2reason
There is a Sumerian myth similar to that of the Tower of Babel, called Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, where the two rival gods, Enki and Enlil end up confusing the tongues of all humankind as collateral damage arising from their argument.
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posted on
09/27/2006 1:27:18 PM PDT
by
Drammach
(Freedom... Not just a job, it's an adventure..)
To: bperiwinkle7
Have you ever read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson?
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posted on
09/27/2006 1:56:42 PM PDT
by
Celtjew Libertarian
("Don't take life so seriously. You'll never get out of it alive." -- Bugs Bunny)
To: Celtjew Libertarian
Very good book (though a bit weird in spots). It builds on the
Bicameral Mind theory proposed a number of years ago.
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posted on
09/27/2006 2:03:08 PM PDT
by
Junior
(I kn)
To: stands2reason
Some time ago.........perhaps 4,000-5,000 years ago.
According to Bishop Usher.....
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posted on
09/27/2006 6:50:19 PM PDT
by
bperiwinkle7
( In the beginning was the WORD,,,,,,,,,,,,,,)
To: Celtjew Libertarian
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posted on
09/27/2006 6:51:22 PM PDT
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bperiwinkle7
( In the beginning was the WORD,,,,,,,,,,,,,,)
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