[MD] Unkludging the MoQ

David Thomas combinedefforts at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 17 05:35:39 PDT 2010


Hi Mangus,

>>> [Craig]
>>> I think the more interesting question is what level human language is on.
>> 
>> It may be an interesting question but has proved to be a futile one. As I
>> have said before when we develop a time machine is when we will definitively
>> answer this question.
> 
> I'm also interested in this one. How is it futile? And why the time machine?
> 
> To me, it's clearly a social pattern. Without it, social patterns like
> church, school and government would be impossible. And on top of that
> human language, we see intellectual patterns depending on it as well.
> 
> It just can't be anything but social.

Agreed. All I'm saying is since language more than likely emerged such a
long, long, long, long, time ago and leaves no discernable traces its
unlikely that we will ever nail down exactly when. How do you excavate a
sound? Time machine, right?

Dave





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