I keep thinking about this:
Without language my ability to think would be so incredibly limited i dont think my brain could even be considered a tool. I am stumped thinking of how speech was made into what it is today, let alone how it was even made.
It muse have been incredibly frustrating being a caveman… seeing things everywhere and not even being able to shroud the mystery of what they really are, with no explanations. Maybe there was a mass extinction of cavemen when the words ‘why’ and ‘how’ came about because so many died trying so incredibly hard to grasp what was going on.
I wonder how it feels like being in a reality which you could conceptualize based on survivability, only survivability. Leaving everything that one couldn’t see promoting survivability as useless matter, because thats all that concerned them. [?] What could have saved cavemen and brought them into the realm of language with syntax and grammar? …Thus allowing them to excel in fields such as science and math.
I understand that simple words could have been created, but syntax and grammar… I also cannot see how those simple strings of out of place words could have been sharpened into todays languages.
Any thoughts, ideas or answers.
Even random information regarding the subject of language or cavemen would be appreciated.
This was an interesting case: pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/libra … 72_04.html
Being within a group and having a necessity to communicate information to others must have been one of the prerequisites for formation of language. I think that if we were an individual species, we would have limited to no need for language, since there would hardly be anybody around to communicate with.
I think language probably started as alot of screaming, and the occasional “ouch” like when a caveman touched a fire or something. Then people started breeding like crazy and there were so many that these common things like “ouch” and “huh” just sort of emerged and stuck around. Then more and more people bred, for a long time, and then eventually we have language as it is now.
Thats not exactly true, humans make up new words/concepts to talk about new ideas/relationships with the world. E-mail, fax, the list is endless. Languages change/alter with new creations to the language.
if you’re stumped thinking of how speech make it into language, think about apes grunting and gesturing with their hands, i’m pretty sure the region they engage in to communicate like that, is where we have broca’s region for language today.
slow adaptation, step by step like fingers or anytihng else.
