@Pawhuska Indeed. I grew up near Berkeley. Used to think Communists were LARPers.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1005627597303115776.html

Academia is rotten

Those are his natural eyebrows, I think maybe the makeup artist went a little heavier on them today to make him look more serious/sinister.

His corrugated supercilious slipped his silly

So language and tools went hand in hand - no tools no language ??? a feedback loop is common in evolution - synapses per neuron got amplified by sharing tool making behaviour

Getting into the root formation of our language is a deep rabbit hole @dumpster

sharing knowledge like this makes language a neccessity - no culture without language

I fear they want us back in the dark ages. The hunger games

I think language/tools/culture all converged at once in a perfect evolutionary storm - why only one species that developed intelligence in the whole history of the planet - US

I studied Latin

I never learned another language violet

As we currently understand communication. Just reading Latin for word roots etc. My grandfather was a scholar.

The language article failed classical critical thinking principles 1) separate fact from opinion2) credibility of source of info. One person was just speculating about the connect and is not a trained philologist. The other a socialist with an agenda

@Pawhuska - Speculating is precisely right

@Pawhuska we cant do a double blind experiment in paleohistory

@Pawhuska Yes. But started a conversation. It’s Salon.

You have gained a rank @V77, you just advanced to 13 . Thanks for all you do Patriot!

"The last covfefe"

https://twitter.com/LizzJustLizz/status/1005816977108230144?s=19

Intelligence is the ultimate strategy for survival - language/tools were prerequistes for intelligence and they popped up together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9wmWZbr_wQ

I find I learn reading their writings and ideation vs an echo chamber.

Some linguists believe the first language was clicking. I think the abbreviation of our language to texting and even speaking in abbreviations could take us back to clicking.

Maybe simultaeneous language and tool use must arise synchronously TERRY - bushmen of the calihari ???

@dumpster There is wealth of research concerning the development of of porto-language development, especially proto-indo-european culture

auto- correct is killing me this morning

Well language sophisticaion must match technological sophistication - look at our language now (auto correct aside) and the tech we r using

@dumpster I was thinking of the language in “The Gods Must be Crazy.” Still exists for how many years?

https://youtu.be/j5F358N-54U

@Terry Flagg - coke bottle if i remember???

@dumpster sort of agree, however substructure syntax has remained constant

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1005796758809653249?s=21

*pew pew*

@dumpster yes, that movie. You know more about the people than I do.

I remember the Gods Must be Crazy. 😃

@Pawhuska OK i have no idea what a syntax is - but language learning is hardwired into humans

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