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reply posted on 19-4-2008 @ 04:28 PM by psychedeliack
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Well, given that we are just a biological form based on numbers, I would imagine speaking in numbers would probably mean psychic communication

I believe we had psychic communication before we created written language, things got a bit out of hand(confused languages), and now we are finally at the point where written language is beginning to explain all the discrepancies within itself along the way. Maybe we are already in that evolved state, we just dont live it.

There are silent retreats you can go to, its pretty amazing the communication you can develop in a community that has taken a vow of silence.


reply posted on 21-4-2008 @ 08:37 AM by Toromos
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Well, to take a stab at your question. We would see very slight dialects arise within decades of the one language. Assuming people all over the world have preserved their history, culture, etc., it would not take too long at all for slight dialects to arise to account for peoples different experiences, cultures, religions, etc.

The rate at which this would occur might be slower due to the rapid and prolific means of communication today. It took the U.S. about a century to develop its own brand of English away from the British version. It may take longer now.

It would probably still take centuries for full blown differing languages to arise. It took about a thousand years for the romance languages to arise from Latin.

Of course all this assumes we can agree on what a different language is. Often times this is a political question, and not scientific. For example "Norwegian" and "Danish" are, for all practical purposes, the same language, but due to intense national pride, the nations of these two groups have chosen to call them different.
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