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 Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
