shalafi@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 3 months agoNow I can't NOT see it.i.imgur.comimagemessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1603
arrow-up1603imageNow I can't NOT see it.i.imgur.comshalafi@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squarealias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months agoone of my linguistics professors wrote an entire peer-reviewed paper about how language grew out of a cooperative effort to kill mastodons
minus-squarealias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months agoi never actually read my prof’s paper, but i read the abstract. the basic idea is that you need a fully developed language to coordinate the slaying and dismembering of a mammoth
minus-squarealias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months agoby “fully developed” i just mean any language spoken within the last 100,000 years.
minus-squarefartographer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoI don’t know why, but seeing you comment on your comments to further edify and clarify is oddly satisfying. Hit us with some more of those facts!
one of my linguistics professors wrote an entire peer-reviewed paper about how language grew out of a cooperative effort to kill mastodons
So we’ve come full circle.
i never actually read my prof’s paper, but i read the abstract. the basic idea is that you need a fully developed language to coordinate the slaying and dismembering of a mammoth
by “fully developed” i just mean any language spoken within the last 100,000 years.
I don’t know why, but seeing you comment on your comments to further edify and clarify is oddly satisfying. Hit us with some more of those facts!