>afme@... writes:
<evolved human word style language, which took off around 6,000 BCE odd.
-- this is a very odd idea. There's no reason to believe that language has
changed in any essential respect since the emergence of behaviorally modern
human beings, c. 60,000 years ago.
Contemporary hunter-gatherers, when first contacted, spoke which did not
differ from ours in any essential respect. Innuit or San do not communicate
with gestures and grunts.
>that archaic languages had but around 40,000 words where ours has a million
and therefore were a shade more ambiguous
-- no, they weren't. We have a larger vocabulary because we deal with a
larger conceptual terrain.
These languages were just as precise as ours in terms of their own universe
of discourse; ie., the things they actually talked about.