The Reach Of Speech

Is there a language instinct?

Conventional thinking is that human babies are born with an intact, generalized language instinct. A kind of universal grammar seems to be, somehow, already preconfigured in their brains. Can this be the case?

http://www.homodiscens.com/home/ways/loquens/language_instinct/
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Could Neanderthals Talk Like Us?

Neanderthals, an ancient cousin-species to humans, lived for a while at the same time as Homo Sapiens. Could this now-extinct species talk just like you and I do? Trace is here to tell you about a tiny bone found in Neanderthals and modern humans might hold the answer.

 

Is this how Eve spoke?

[h=1]Every human language evolved from 'single prehistoric African mother tongue'[/h]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...-prehistoric-mother-tongue-spoken-Africa.html

Every language in the world - from English to Mandarin - evolved from a prehistoric 'mother tongue' first spoken in Africa tens of thousands of years ago, a new study reveals.


After analysing more than 500 languages, Dr Quentin Atkinson found compelling evidence that they can be traced back to a long-forgotten dialect spoken by our Stone Age ancestors.


The findings don't just pinpoint the origin of language to Africa - they also show that speech evolved at least 100,000 years ago, far earlier than previously thought.


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Afro-Magnon Man: (Above left) This hirsute creature lasted but a short while giving way to Cornrow-Magnon Man.
Cro-Magnum Man: (Above right) These clever tool makers were the first to develop the handgun, a rudimentary pistol fashioned from bamboo and sun-baked mud. Though a very crude weapon it was deadly enough that the Cro-Magnums succeeded in wiping themselves out through homicide and intertribal warfare in just a few years.
http://www.terrycolon.com/5cracked/proto.html
 
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Thanks Nancy!

[h=2]List of the Top Spine Noonerisms


Figure them out for yourselves!


Drain Bamage
Bater Wottle
Right Facism
Sparking Pace
Bass Ackwards
Chilled Greese
Joking Smacket
Teepy Slime
West Bestern
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I'd like to know what the blarn deep was. Probably tame by today's standards.:)

btw, spellcheck doesn't like spoonerisms.
 
NancyNGA said:
I'd like to know what the blarn deep was. Probably tame by today's standards.:)

btw, spellcheck doesn't like spoonerisms.
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Abraham Lincoln was quite fond of wordplay. He once wrote in a letter, "He said he was riding bass-ackwards on a jass-ack through a patton-crotch,"� but we don't know if Lincoln came up with that himself or was actually quoting someone.
 

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