Alan's account seems plausible, but still leaves question of where spoken language came from. My earlier thought has been that singing was the essential step. Different songs for different activities would then lead, implicitly and directly to verbs. My back is turned but I hear the eating song or the chipping song, or the running song and I know what that other is doing. Nouns arise as verbs that go with persons or things.
Then why songs? they help keep group together, provide solidarity, help group members find each other and cooperate. Best, Michael On Sep 4, 2006, at 3:43 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: > (apologies for two posts in a row, but this has 'gone' somewhere of > interest - Alan) > > Disordered thinking through the origin of language (I'm in > quotation) - > > ... "I know this sounds ridiculous - but I'm on to something. If <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
