Comments on: Words from the Ice Age https://habitablezone.com/2013/05/07/words-from-the-ice-age/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2013/05/07/words-from-the-ice-age/#comment-23767 bowser Wed, 08 May 2013 22:27:57 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=32276#comment-23767 That "intelligence" was evolved so as to allow social cooperation. That is why dolphins are intelligent, as well as other animal species. Language would have been a or the way such cooperation was effected. It doesn't surprise me that incorporated in the very roots of intelligence would be sounds which kept their meanings, sounds maybe rooted in DNA and not learned. Nothing in that area surprises me any more. That “intelligence” was evolved so as to allow social cooperation. That is why dolphins are intelligent, as well as other animal species.

Language would have been a or the way such cooperation was effected. It doesn’t surprise me that incorporated in the very roots of intelligence would be sounds which kept their meanings, sounds maybe rooted in DNA and not learned.

Nothing in that area surprises me any more.

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2013/05/07/words-from-the-ice-age/#comment-23766 bowser Wed, 08 May 2013 22:23:15 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=32276#comment-23766 My German bachelor uncles used to refer to me in words I couldn't understand but I instinctively knew the meaning. Maybe it's a similar phenomenum. My German bachelor uncles used to refer to me in words I couldn’t understand but I instinctively knew the meaning. Maybe it’s a similar phenomenum.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2013/05/07/words-from-the-ice-age/#comment-23748 ER Wed, 08 May 2013 16:56:18 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=32276#comment-23748 But only about half of them work. But only about half of them work.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2013/05/07/words-from-the-ice-age/#comment-23741 TB Wed, 08 May 2013 02:55:29 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=32276#comment-23741 <p>I was wondering about that myself.</p> The link that supposedly pronounces all these things doesn't work on my browser. I was wondering about that myself.

The link that supposedly pronounces all these things doesn’t work on my browser.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2013/05/07/words-from-the-ice-age/#comment-23739 ER Wed, 08 May 2013 01:36:42 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=32276#comment-23739 You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother. And no spitting in the ashes! Tu,escuchame. Darle este fuego a ese viejo. Arranca el gusano negro de la corteza y darle a la madre. Y no escupes en las cenizas! I don't know about this theory. English is a Germanic tongue, and Spanish is derived from Latin. Both trace back to the Indo European root tongue, probably similar to Sanskrit. But can you trace any similarity? You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother. And no spitting in the ashes!

Tu,escuchame. Darle este fuego a ese viejo. Arranca el gusano negro de la corteza y darle a la madre. Y no escupes en las cenizas!

I don’t know about this theory. English is a Germanic tongue, and Spanish is derived from Latin. Both trace back to the Indo European root tongue, probably similar to Sanskrit. But can you trace any similarity?

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