A long long time ago, humans went from grunts to some kind of primitive language then to an advance language.
How did a region possibly learn and agree that the sound “tree” for example meant that big thing over there?
Maybe my family would agree and say, but then our neighbours or tribe some 20km away?
Then for every word, tenses, grammar?!
I imagine it took a long time but I can’t even comprehend how you would transition from grunts to even a basic common language for a larger region like ancient China, Egypt, or aztecs.
They obviously did accomplish it, but how?
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You can watch this happen in real time as events happen and people create new memes (or invent new words and phrases) to describe it.
Some people will get the new words, and some people won’t. The more popular ones, especially the ones expressing a new idea, will spread the best.
All language is essentially viral.
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