Re: Open Source / community based Language

Joe scripsit:

> Someone pointed at a rock and said 'kwe', or something, and someone pointed
> at a tree and said 'ra', then everyone gets in on this naming thing, and
> eventually, they ascribe words to actions, thus inventing verbs.  Then people
> have the bright idea of mixing the two, creating the first languages.  Then
> some bright spark fleshes it out a bit more, inventing adjectives.  And,
> eventually, after a while, cases, number, and gender get absorbed, creating
> inflections, and so on.
>
> That's my theory of language development...
Ah yes, the "ding-dong" theory.

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