RE: Language
December 21, 2017 at 11:02 am
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2017 at 11:04 am by downbeatplumb.)
(December 20, 2017 at 2:44 pm)Haipule Wrote: Because it is impossible to think beyond your vocabulary; I would say that man could not, and did not invent language. It must have been given to him from the start. Any thoughts?
I think that its bullshit. People make up words all he time and concepts can grow.
There is for example a word in german for giving your wife a present after you've upset her.
Can you think of that concept with knowing the word?
And here we have a new meaning for an old word. When someone in my office makes a stupid desicion nowdays we call them "presidential". A year or so ago no one would have known what we mean.
(December 20, 2017 at 9:31 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:So do bees but, they cannot read a book!
Neither can many humans.
My next door neighbour never learnt to read and he's about 80.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
