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RE: Language
December 24, 2017 at 10:52 am (This post was last modified: December 24, 2017 at 11:31 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(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 there are feelings we have that cannot be expressed accurately, or perhaps even at all, with language.

As for inventing language, I think man did. If not man, who?
(December 21, 2017 at 10:48 am)Godscreated Wrote: True language is a special thing that is exclusive to man.

Factually incorrect.

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Language - by Haipule - December 20, 2017 at 2:44 pm
RE: Language - by purplepurpose - December 20, 2017 at 3:05 pm
RE: Language - by c172 - December 20, 2017 at 3:09 pm
RE: Language - by Brian37 - December 20, 2017 at 3:30 pm
RE: Language - by The Grand Nudger - December 20, 2017 at 3:49 pm
RE: Language - by brewer - December 20, 2017 at 5:56 pm
RE: Language - by Haipule - December 20, 2017 at 6:20 pm
RE: Language - by brewer - December 20, 2017 at 6:25 pm
RE: Language - by Brian37 - December 26, 2017 at 11:18 am
RE: Language - by Haipule - December 27, 2017 at 10:03 pm
RE: Language - by Minimalist - December 20, 2017 at 5:59 pm
RE: Language - by Whateverist - December 20, 2017 at 6:41 pm
RE: Language - by Simon Moon - December 20, 2017 at 7:06 pm
RE: Language - by Haipule - December 20, 2017 at 7:37 pm
RE: Language - by Simon Moon - December 20, 2017 at 7:54 pm
RE: Language - by Haipule - December 20, 2017 at 8:32 pm
RE: Language - by Simon Moon - December 20, 2017 at 9:37 pm
RE: Language - by Simon Moon - December 20, 2017 at 10:09 pm
RE: Language - by Neo-Scholastic - December 20, 2017 at 7:29 pm
RE: Language - by bennyboy - December 20, 2017 at 8:14 pm
RE: Language - by Anomalocaris - December 20, 2017 at 8:32 pm
RE: Language - by Haipule - December 20, 2017 at 9:17 pm
RE: Language - by Minimalist - December 20, 2017 at 9:31 pm
RE: Language - by chimp3 - December 20, 2017 at 9:44 pm
RE: Language - by ignoramus - December 21, 2017 at 2:51 am
RE: Language - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 21, 2017 at 4:52 am
RE: Language - by Godscreated - December 21, 2017 at 10:48 am
RE: Language - by Haipule - December 21, 2017 at 4:50 pm
RE: Language - by Godscreated - December 22, 2017 at 12:32 am
RE: Language - by Drich - December 21, 2017 at 10:50 am
RE: Language - by JackRussell - December 21, 2017 at 10:54 am
RE: Language - by downbeatplumb - December 21, 2017 at 11:02 am
RE: Language - by Neo-Scholastic - December 21, 2017 at 11:50 am
RE: Language - by drfuzzy - December 21, 2017 at 12:24 pm
RE: Language - by Haipule - December 21, 2017 at 10:08 pm
RE: Language - by Simon Moon - December 23, 2017 at 2:19 pm
RE: Language - by Haipule - December 25, 2017 at 3:03 am
RE: Language - by Wyrd of Gawd - December 21, 2017 at 11:28 pm
RE: Language - by Haipule - December 21, 2017 at 11:50 pm
RE: Language - by Fireball - December 22, 2017 at 12:24 am
RE: Language - by Haipule - December 22, 2017 at 1:39 am
RE: Language - by Wyrd of Gawd - December 22, 2017 at 4:52 am
RE: Language - by Haipule - December 22, 2017 at 6:03 pm
RE: Language - by Wyrd of Gawd - December 22, 2017 at 7:06 pm
RE: Language - by Haipule - December 23, 2017 at 3:36 am
RE: Language - by Wyrd of Gawd - December 23, 2017 at 4:37 am
RE: Language - by Thumpalumpacus - December 24, 2017 at 10:52 am
RE: Language - by Godscreated - December 25, 2017 at 1:21 am
RE: Language - by Thumpalumpacus - December 25, 2017 at 3:07 am
RE: Language - by Godscreated - December 26, 2017 at 12:49 am
RE: Language - by Thumpalumpacus - December 27, 2017 at 9:41 pm
RE: Language - by Haipule - December 24, 2017 at 6:30 pm
RE: Language - by Cecelia - December 27, 2017 at 12:05 pm

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