Where does Language come from? Does it come from somewhere? Let's find out!

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Originally Posted by AnabellaG

Agree! A need to communicate and coordinate, for example. A need to be understood by the others and satisfy the selfish desires..

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Indeed, I just had to make it short :P

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Originally Posted by francot

Indeed, I just had to make it short :P

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Hahaha ~ You won! You have the shortest answer 😜

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Originally Posted by vicente

That would be "Hace mucho tiempo, no?"

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LOL! The "uhh uhh" thing it's hilarious 😁

The coincidences that you may find in many languages are also called linguistic universals. They are the principles that guarantee the normal functioning of any language.

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Originally Posted by danielr

The coincidences that you may find in many languages are also called linguistic universals. They are the principles that guarantee the normal functioning of any language.

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Exactly! And, at the end of the day, language, or the way we communicate, is a reflection of how our minds work so it's only logical that many languages choose the same mechanisms to convey an idea.

Well, there you are getting into Sapir-Whorf's hypothesis, agustinab. It's a delicate subject ;)

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Originally Posted by danielr

Well, there you are getting into Sapir-Whorf's hypothesis, agustinab. It's a delicate subject ;)

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Are you talking about Sapir-Whorf's "all human thoughts and actions are bound by the restraints of language"?

It's a good hypo, I do agree, to some extent, that the whole paper on it revolves around the idea that we assigned significance by general agreement or consensus rather than good-willed well-organized pure scientific method with no less than 99% of inaccuracy. To some extent.

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Yes, Eidji, that very same hypothesis that can be discussed with your comic.
If you wonder by the beginning of language, I dare to say that it was influeced and shaped by the environment. The Proto-Indo-European is open to discussion.