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Old 09-18-2011, 01:07 PM
kerry kerry is offline
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Originally Posted by suginami View Post
I studied linguistics in college, and one of the few things I manage to remember is that the main purpose of human language is to communicate our culture.

The teacher explained to us that almost anything can be relayed via non verbal communication; 2/3 of human communication is non-verbal anyway.
Is that a verbal species communicating non-verbally or a non-verbal species communicating non-verbally? Are the limits different and what are they? Looks like Neanderthals probably had spoken language.
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