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<p>[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 4327980, member: 96898"]Makes a lot of sense considering <a href="https://blog.linguistlist.org/ilit/new-evidence-for-neanderthal-language-announced/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://blog.linguistlist.org/ilit/new-evidence-for-neanderthal-language-announced/" rel="nofollow">this recent linguistic breakthrough</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>"<b>New Evidence for Neanderthal Language Announced</b></p><p><br /></p><p>YPSILANTI, Michigan – The controversy over whether Neanderthals possessed a capacity for language may have been resolved. After years of speculation by evolutionary anthropologists and geneticists, a group of linguists has announced today that they have uncovered written evidence proving the Neanderthal capacity for language. [...]</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems that Neanderthals had a single syllable oog, which, when repeated, formed different words. oog has been translated as ‘Oog’ a proper name, oog.oog meant ‘two people named Oog,’ oog.oog.oog meant ‘emotionally distant – like a teenager anxious to move out of his parents’ cave’ and so on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Schmaltz’ team was able to identify and translate two texts left by Neanderthals. The first, a recent discovery in Spain, is a fragment of a teenager’s diary. It reads oog.oog.oog and has been translated as ‘[Dear diary, I feel] emotionally distant. [I wish I had my own cave]’. [...]"</p><p><br /></p><p>(In light of recent discussions on this board, please keep in mind that the article cited above was published on April 1st, 2014).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 4327980, member: 96898"]Makes a lot of sense considering [URL='https://blog.linguistlist.org/ilit/new-evidence-for-neanderthal-language-announced/']this recent linguistic breakthrough[/URL]: "[B]New Evidence for Neanderthal Language Announced[/B] YPSILANTI, Michigan – The controversy over whether Neanderthals possessed a capacity for language may have been resolved. After years of speculation by evolutionary anthropologists and geneticists, a group of linguists has announced today that they have uncovered written evidence proving the Neanderthal capacity for language. [...] It seems that Neanderthals had a single syllable oog, which, when repeated, formed different words. oog has been translated as ‘Oog’ a proper name, oog.oog meant ‘two people named Oog,’ oog.oog.oog meant ‘emotionally distant – like a teenager anxious to move out of his parents’ cave’ and so on. Schmaltz’ team was able to identify and translate two texts left by Neanderthals. The first, a recent discovery in Spain, is a fragment of a teenager’s diary. It reads oog.oog.oog and has been translated as ‘[Dear diary, I feel] emotionally distant. [I wish I had my own cave]’. [...]" (In light of recent discussions on this board, please keep in mind that the article cited above was published on April 1st, 2014).[/QUOTE]
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