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Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of SCIENCE? (lemmy.world)
submitted 19 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Feel free to remove this, mods, if it's too tangential to modern science, but I thought the community might find this early nature vs. nurture hypothesis amusing

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Apparently there's enough comments to convince me this was serious. Generations would invent language, but it's a tough ask for children to do it, and expect that it matches any existing langunge. Why cats and dogs are not called meowsers and woofers in a language I know is beyond me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Children have been documented to spontaneously invent language.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Thank you for link. Interesting. It did show language evolving/changing quickly. Any expectation that they would reinvent ASL or Aramaic independently would have been an absurd expectation.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 15 hours ago

The Egyptian word for cat was “mau” so close enough