Philip Hart wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Alexx Kay wrote: > > >>> [Snip] > >>If true, this theory has some interesting implications. Language >>evolved as a tool for easy differentiation of Culture, not because >>of intelligence. > > > I've long thought that language was developed so that people could > write poetry (or songs, if one insists) in order to get laid. > > I had a physics/chem prof in HS that insisted geeks invented language. They were near-sighted, you see, and so couldn't hit the broad side of a mammoth with a spear .... from inside the mammoth. So in order to survive, our proto-geek ancestors invented language to ... as you say, write poetry in order to get laid. Kisc