<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>jeffrey E. &lt;jeevacation@gmail.com&gt;</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Sunday, January 3, 2016 5:10 PM</td></tr><tr><td>To:</td><td>Noam Chomsky</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Re: Re:</td></tr></table>

we agree, that is why i try to stay away from the wo=d infinity in broad usem   infinity is really on a math co=cept.

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Noam Chomsky ██████████████████████=/a>> <mailto:████████████████████> wrote:

Apes can gesture "I'm=hungry," but their symbolic systems differ radically from human la=guage in just about every significant respect.

There are very broad uses of language= but I think they're more confusing than helpful. There is a=biological system: human language. The English word "languag=" (which, incidentally, doesn't translate easily, even to closely re=ated languages) covers a lot more than that, just as "move =9D or "energy" in English cover a lot more than what scien=ists mean by the term. Seems to me a good idea to follow scientific =ractice and avoid the broad uses, except in informal discourse.

From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2016 11:55 AM
To: Noam Chomsky <████████████████████████<mailto:████████████████████████> >
Subject: Re:

gesturing im hungry, ? does that n=ed a language first with your broad definition?

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Noam Chomsky <mailto: > wrote:

Don't see how it would work.=C2 We can't tell stories until language is already available.

There are, of course, speculations ab=ut how language might have developed very slowly, first with short sentences, then longer ones, etc. One could interweave specula=ions about story telling into these. Problem with these tales is the=usual one with speculation — one can imagine 1 million possibiliti=s. Dick Lewontin's important paper on evolution of cognition is again relevant. And there is a more formidable probl=m: the leap to unboundedness is saltational, by definition, so nothing is =ained by the speculations, a fact that many of those engaged in these effo=ts seem not to have grasped.

From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2016 11:25 AM
To: Noam Chomsky <blackened out<mailto:
Subject:

how does story telling fit in to the origin of langu=ge. ? internal stories? overlay on mus=c . alarms? how important are stories ?

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