the evolution of language (174)
online today!online today!pedro27Bray, Dublin Ireland5,970 Threads 223 Polls 33,240 Postsspoken language leaves no traces in the historic record, so we shall probably never know how or even exactly when it originated.
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pedro27: spoken language leaves no traces in the historic record, so we shall probably never know how or even exactly when it originated.
Anthropologists can tell what sounds early people were capable of making.
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pedro27: spoken language leaves no traces in the historic record, so we shall probably never know how or even exactly when it originated.
When you consider all the differant languages,its amazing.
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GingerBe: Anthropologists can tell what sounds early people were capable of making.
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GingerBe: Anthropologists can tell what sounds early people were capable of making.
i bought an interesting book its about structure, function and disorders of the brain. its were i am geting the info from
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RDM59: http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/soundfx/human_sounds/human_bg-kiss1a_wav.shtml
Nice one.
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pedro27: i bought an interesting book its about structure, function and disorders of the brain. its were i am geting the info from
Most of what science does, is speculation, so I suppose in some ways we will never know anything for sure.Science is never an exact science.
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GingerBe: Most of what science does, is speculation, so I suppose in some ways we will never know anything for sure.
Science is never an exact science.
Science is never an exact science.
please help me to understand what you mean by this?
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theoldestdear: please help me to understand what you mean by this?
Well, the earth was flat... then it wasn't, the earth was centre of the universe... then it wasn't, the atom ws the smallest thing possible... the there was smaller...... Science is about what we know and can prove NOW------ This thread is Archived ------
GingerBe: Most of what science does, is speculation, so I suppose in some ways we will never know anything for sure.
Science is never an exact science.
Science is never an exact science.
i can only speculate
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theoldestdear: please help me to understand what you mean by this?
Theories and then the endeavor to prove them.
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We can tell how Ancient Latin was spoken and where the stresses were placed by understanding the Roman poetry. The metre evinces the stresses of syllables, while alliteration and assonance give us the sounds. So, while we can't converse with Cicero, we can understand how he spoke.
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theoldestdear: please help me to understand what you mean by this?
Not you again!!!
Like I said before. Science is not an exact "science". Science is often based on theory/speculation.......if this/then that.....
The "IFs" are often leaps into the unknown, to things that can only be speculated about. Conclusions are arrived at, from a hypothesis, often based on speculation, no matter how near the truth that speculation might be.
*Theory in technical use is a more or less (so not really) verified or established explanation accounting for known facts or phenomena: the theory of relativity.
*A hypothesis is a conjecture put forth as a possible explanation of phenomena or relations, which serves as a basis of argument or experimentation to reach the truth: This idea is only a hypothesis.
Now I know you like to believer otherwise, and you are entitled to that, so please leave the argument, or speculation to science for now.
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Blues63: We can tell how Ancient Latin was spoken and where the stresses were placed by understanding the Roman poetry. The metre evinces the stresses of syllables, while alliteration and assonance give us the sounds. So, while we can't converse with Cicero, we can understand how he spoke.
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RDM59: Theories and then the endeavor to prove them.
Glad someone is on the same page R.
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GingerBe: Glad someone is on the same page R.
This of course is not science, it just babbling from a then dangerous man
"There are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know".
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cicero once said:language was invented so women could wine
I guess it is true:Silence is the language of the gods
I guess it is true:Silence is the language of the gods
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blarneykite: Well, the earth was flat... then it wasn't, the earth was centre of the universe... then it wasn't, the atom ws the smallest thing possible... the there was smaller...... Science is about what we know and can prove NOW
Science investigates difficult questions about unknown fields, and scientists are human, so it is inevitable that scientific findings will not be perfect. However, science works by investigating more and more, which means results get checked and rechecked with further findings. The reason some findings change is because they get corrected. This process of correction helps make science one of the most successful areas of human endeavor.
the sciencitic mantra is "The people who cannot be trusted are those who are always right."
As more evidence accumulates, scientific findings become more and more certain. Theories that have withstood several decades of study may undergo more refinement of details, but it is almost inconceivable that they would be overturned completely.
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theoldestdear: Science investigates difficult questions about unknown fields, and scientists are human, so it is inevitable that scientific findings will not be perfect. However, science works by investigating more and more, which means results get checked and rechecked with further findings. The reason some findings change is because they get corrected. This process of correction helps make science one of the most successful areas of human endeavor.
the sciencitic mantra is "The people who cannot be trusted are those who are always right."
As more evidence accumulates, scientific findings become more and more certain. Theories that have withstood several decades of study may undergo more refinement of details, but it is almost inconceivable that they would be overturned completely.
the sciencitic mantra is "The people who cannot be trusted are those who are always right."
As more evidence accumulates, scientific findings become more and more certain. Theories that have withstood several decades of study may undergo more refinement of details, but it is almost inconceivable that they would be overturned completely.
We're in full agreement here, for all that science has gotten wrong, scientists are happy to be proven wrong with theories that improve on earlier understandings... to me science is that endeavour for the truth... UNLIKE RELIGION
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RDM59: Theories and then the endeavor to prove them.
scientists do not set out to prove a theory, they attempt to disprove it.
As used in science, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena.
Any scientific theory must be based on a careful and rational examination of the facts. A clear distinction needs to be made between facts (things which can be observed and/or measured) and theories (explanations which correlate and interpret the facts.
Before a theory is given any credence in the scientific community, it must be subjected to "peer review." This means that the proposed theory must be published in a legitimate scientific journal in order to provide the opportunity for other scientists to evaluate the relevant factual information, test the thoery through objective experimantation and publish their conclusions.
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