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TommyTP's avatar

Missus loves Mr Bean too, and her mum was orang Sunda, but she's not much of a linguist, cunning or otherwise 😁

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Faye's avatar

Everyone loves Mr. Bean (except his girlfriend who for Christmas got a picture of a couple getting engaged instead of an engagement ring she was hinting at 🤣)

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Mrs Aardvark's avatar

All interesting thoughts... I think I agree, the invention of language is the most important invention. I believe there is a hypothesis out there that in fact the development of language was closely tied to the development of our brains.

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Faye's avatar

Intuitively that makes sense to me. As the early humans developed their language, they thought more due to the feedback from fellow humans, and as they thought, their brains/neural pathways grew as a result - neuroplasticity! The limitation of a language equals the limitation of ideas, I think. (Have to chew on this more)

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