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Neanderthals talked like us half a million years ago and could even have shaped today's language
Daily Mail ^ | 10 July 2013 | SARAH GRIFFITHS

Posted on 07/10/2013 9:30:34 AM PDT by Pharmboy

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I have never--for a minute--believed what the academics have claimed for years: that our language acquisition was recent.
1 posted on 07/10/2013 9:30:34 AM PDT by Pharmboy
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Grok (that means ‘ping’ in Neanderthal).


2 posted on 07/10/2013 9:31:35 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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3 posted on 07/10/2013 9:32:41 AM PDT by EEGator
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After chatting with a few kids hanging outside a local high school, it’s a plausible theory.


4 posted on 07/10/2013 9:34:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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I’m equally skeptical concerning early assessments that the Neanderthals were cognitively inferior. For one thing, none of them were Democrats.


5 posted on 07/10/2013 9:35:13 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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Yabba Dabba Doo!


6 posted on 07/10/2013 9:35:26 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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I have proof...


7 posted on 07/10/2013 9:38:44 AM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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To: Pharmboy; All
"Neanderthals talked like us
half a million years ago and could
even have shaped today's language"

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8 posted on 07/10/2013 9:38:59 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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Language? So easy, even a caveman can do it.
9 posted on 07/10/2013 9:39:03 AM PDT by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Committee of Correspondence)
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I have trouble grokking that.


10 posted on 07/10/2013 9:40:34 AM PDT by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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Neandertals had larger brains than ‘modern’ man.


11 posted on 07/10/2013 9:41:11 AM PDT by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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Very, very good. And rapidamente!


12 posted on 07/10/2013 9:49:21 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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Ah yes...”Stranger in a Strange Land.” One of my favorite books from high school days. It was the only thing that came to mind. Thanks!


13 posted on 07/10/2013 9:50:34 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: Pharmboy; Revolting cat!

14 posted on 07/10/2013 9:53:50 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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I’m equally skeptical concerning early assessments that the Neanderthals were cognitively inferior. For one thing, none of them were Democrats.

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15 posted on 07/10/2013 9:55:39 AM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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“Ah yes...”Stranger in a Strange Land.” One of my favorite books from high school days. It was the only thing that came to mind.”

Mine as well. :)

“Thanks!”

My pleasure.


16 posted on 07/10/2013 10:03:46 AM PDT by EEGator
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Heh....


17 posted on 07/10/2013 10:09:39 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Our parents: The Greatest Generation. Their kids and grand kids: The Stupidest.)
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18 posted on 07/10/2013 10:12:27 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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it is a shame that no Neanderthal libraries survived. They would be an academic treasure.


19 posted on 07/10/2013 10:16:41 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (we're the Beatniks now)
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Ironic; Neanderthals talked like us, and now we speak like Neanderthals.

What’ old is new again.


20 posted on 07/10/2013 10:37:30 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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