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Anyone likes psycholinguistics?
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robsolete
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05 May 2010 at 6:04am | IP Logged

sik0fewl wrote:

I imagine it started with a series of grunts and slowly became more sophisticated :)

So my girlfriend re-enacts the creation of language each morning before she has her first cup of coffee?
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05 May 2010 at 6:07am | IP Logged

Smart wrote:

goosefrabbas wrote:

Yeah... definitely impossible to know. Writing has
only been used for 5,000-10,000 years, depending on what you'd classify as writing, and
humans have been here a bit longer than that - about 200,000 years.

the evidence suggests 50-60,000. Not 200k.

No
it
doesn't
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