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Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of SCIENCE?
(lemmy.world)
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
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.
Children have been documented to spontaneously invent language.
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.
The Egyptian word for cat was “mau” so close enough
Cat in Mandarin is māo