Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Crank linguistics/reply (6)

Finally read both pieces. I really don't get why people think language evolves once, and only once from a proto language. We know, from finding language isolates, or from studies of deaf kids, that it is human to create language. We do it necessarily. we will do it with or without assistance though the language we invent may be 'primitive' in teh sense that it functions to convey what we need, and might be incapable of conveying too much more. but that's of course all speculation. This proto-world theory just seems... unintuitive, much less as this author points out, nonacademic.

That said, i really need to remember not to read the bottom half of the internet.