Why did only human beings develop the ability to communicate if it makes us so powerful? You'd think another specues would evolve as competition at some point.

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[–]Questionable 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Three factors, a voice box capable of complex speech, a brain that is slightly larger to create that speech, and third but not least, opposable thumbs for craft a written language to maintain a permanent record of the meaning and usage of words.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The last point is risible seeing as the written word developed thousands of years after speech, full literacy only happening in the last 100 years and many cultures still don't have writing yet speak fine.

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risible

If you are going to call someone laughable, don't hide it behind a thesaurus, and distance it by claiming you are saying it about their stamens and not the person you are directly that insult at. Do it as I would, and say it to their face.

I for example believe you to be a laughing stock(risible) if you think the written language started after speech. See what I did there? I wasn't coy about my insults as you were. Again, I said it directly to you and about you. Now if we are through with the petty insults, I will move back to the topic at hand.

I believe you to be incorrect. The written language didn't start with words or letters, it started in pictograph and evolved from there. Just because someone dated a rock, or a clay tablet doesn't mean humans weren't drawing pictures in the sand, or painting with their own feces on cave walls. In fact, it can be claimed it started in the based of representation, when any human pointed to 3 pieces of food, or objects, and held up 3 fingers to indicate the amount they wished to receive.

And gosh, what did happen once the written language evolved? Society advanced. It advanced to the point, were computers communicate at millions of characters per second on the command of man.

As for what 'some cultures' have achieved in the last 100 years. That's not relevant to the topic at hand. Which amounted to the bulk of your argument, or to say. You made no valid argument.

In addition, I would like to point out that the three factors I have mentioned work in tandem. As if you take out any one element, you end up being a dolphin, or living in mud huts.

Oh, wait you did make a valid point! As without written langue your culture is either that of a primitive, or other mammal, such as an elephant, with only a partially articulate limb. Try it with any example on earth. Remove one of the three elements, I have mentioned for communications, and communications fails to advance.

Ĥ̅͛ǝ̮̺͕̲̰llo ʍoɹlp' I,m Qnǝsʇᴉouɐqlǝ.̬̘̟ͅ