Quoting taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...>:
> * John Crowe said on 2007-07-19 10:38:04 +0200
> > It seems that most of the suggestions fail to differentiate language from
> > lower level communication. For example, "means of symbolic communication"
> > would include road signs and such.
>
> I agree with Andreas as to what is minimally needed for a language,
> namely the arbitrariness [of morpheme composition]
For the record, I did not say that that is minimally needed for a language. I
said it is something that characterizes human speech as compared to non-human
modes of communication.
Andreas