Re: THEORY: Question about the evolution of language

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

>         Interesting. It may be apocryphal too,
That may well be.  But, FWIW, Herodotos was always careful to note
something to the effect that "Now, I'm only reporting what I heard. I'm
not that credulous!", and here we have no overt statement like this.

> but the idea that at any time
> you can find the same kind of stories is interesting. Language and its
> acquisition seems to have been an object of interest since the dawn of
> civilisation.
Yeah.  I mentioned in a previous post that I'm taking a class on
the native languages of North America; already I've read more than
a few language-origin myths.  One from California group was rather
interesting, in so far as the development of a multiplicity of languages
was portrayed as a sudden development for all peoples, just like
the Biblical equivalent. Given that most native peoples have cyclical
rather than linear conceptions of time, that's probably a rather rare
occurrence.

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