July 10, 2022 @ 8:19 am · Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
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Dan Piraro on the origins of language:
July 10, 2022 @ 8:19 am · Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
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Cervantes said,
July 10, 2022 @ 9:12 am
A directive speech act, followed by a representative speech act. Probably the wrong sequence.
Peter B. Golden said,
July 10, 2022 @ 9:46 am
According to Mel Brooks's "The 2000 Year Old Man," the first language was "rock talk." When asked to give a sample, he said: "hey, don't hit me with that rock."
unekdoud said,
July 10, 2022 @ 9:48 am
Bizarro did one week of speech bubble jokes back in May:
https://waynocartoons.blogspot.com/2022/05/fumetti-cumuli.html