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Languages are expression and music and communication and they are wonderful beautiful things, each language.

Every "silly" word you hear from another language is a window to that language. A method to understand what that word means and understand that language a bit better.

And that language has beauty. It has poetry. Every language does.

(There are even poets who have found ways to make programming languages into poems)

@Ulfra_Wolfe Music itself is a language of it own, not just born from language.

@Zaiaku I'm interested in the "musilanguage" theory of linguistic development. That it started with long series of noises, much like chimps communicate, instead of assembling sentences by small words. But regardless, music explains a lot of paleolithic language. Ready to go on a hunt as a group? Talk with a war chant! Ready for romance? Sing beautifully & personally & poetically. Want to combine the do? Do like the Norse & battle rap.

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