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From: brian@digi-g.UUCP (Merlyn Leroy)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Misc Language
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 11:13:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 29 11:13:42 1985
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Summary: 

Paul DuBois:
>...Don't you find it in the least suspicious
>that language should develop over such a long period of time and then
>just show up full blown with NO TRACE of prior development?

Do you mean spoken or written language?  Spoken language would leave 
no* evidence of it's developement; written language would leave some,
but not much.  Written language may have started as a method of labelling
pottery jars (number & type of items) since the jars were kept sealed
to preserve the contents.  I believe this is the earliest known writing
(as opposed to, say, cave pictures).

Merlyn Leroy
Primordial Slime

*Actually, some ancient sounds may be preserved in solidified tree sap.
Hard to play, though.  Ain't science grand?