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Before languages, we had visual theft for thousands of years. We watched other make axis. Then we went home and remembered what we had seen but we could not describe to anyone else how to do it.
Along came HOMO SAPINS.
With a grunt here and a grunt there about 135,000 years ago ( up till then it was gesturing that rule the roost) in the Stone Age developed language.
The truth however is no one quite knows how or exactly when the human brain developed language.
To day we have around 70000 different languages. Which was the first? Most likely Arabic.
No is also a very popular word in languages.
Chinese and Spanish were spot long before English.
“ Huh “ is the only word that is common to all languages . It’s the sound we make when we’re are confused.
Amen is one of those words that causes debate . “ May it be so “
The question is does the language we speak shape the way we think?
I would say yes the way one talks about the world must shape our thoughts which come first,.Thec words we chose describe our reality, our perceptions a direct image of our minds.
But language is not needed for though only to put those thought into a description that can be understood.
We have to speak and reason in the language of our own time., otherwise it makes no sense.
With AI we will probably turn languages into bound listeners. If we stop noticing each other we definitely be back to HUh.
The digital destruction of children is a crisis we will have to face with language to stop it happening.
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