Are We Alone? S. , 50:30
Informational
Sorry, but there are only five stars. I wish I had time to listen to all of this. It is a program I'd like to have on a CD so I could hear it -- many times -- when I'm driving. This is the kind of program that Public Radio is supposed to be about. By the way -- "Noam Chomsky, the famous linguist" is redundant. Never talk down to your audience. Re: how did lanugage evolve? We are familiar with the Bow-Wow Theory and the Ding-Dong Theory. But even more plausible is The humble Farmer's Itch Theory. I maintain that language evolved out of necessity when a man needed to tell his wife where to scratch his back: "Up, up, over, over more, up, up. Yes there. Right there. Ahhh."
Robert Skoglund
St. George, ME
July 17, 2008
Is there any chance that alien beings share a universal grammar with terrestrial tongues, and creating a language from scratch.
