Better question, was language ever invented?
On Nature and Language by Noam Chomsky http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/052101624X/ref=pd_sim_books_1/ 104-4192209-3818315?v=glance&s=books
And for the more evolutionarily oriented, look into: The Language Instinct : How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution by Ray Jackendoff
-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]On Behalf Of Yoshie Furuhashi Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 10:47 AM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org; furuhashi.1 at osu.edu Subject: [lbo-talk] RE: Theory of Porn
Jon says:
>I happen to believe (naturally, I have no "empirical evidence" for
>it) that people started to tell dirty jokes approximately six weeks
>after they invented language, drew dirty pictures as soon as they
>learned how to draw, and wrote pornographic literature as soon as
>they invented writing.
Did sex become a "dirty" subject so soon after the invention of language?
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Yoshie
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