Language is a series of grunts, groans, and babbles that humans magically learn to associate with different states and actions of reality.
If I say blarg and demonstrate skipping a rock to you, you’ll pretty quickly learn that blarg either means “I skip”, “you skip”, “we skip”, “skip” or something along those lines. Do this action whenever I say blarg.
- [language] enables [information] and knowledge transfer
- Speech leads to myth, song, drums, dance, and stories, which become the first…
- Stories/myths/memes, culture passed from one mind to another
- Writing - written language, can be passed down farther, and wider than ever before – culture starts to spread, ideas start to spread
- language-games meaning through use