http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/06/write-where-you-are-2/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/06/write-where-you-are-2/#comment-525 Emily Warn Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:40:29 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=251#comment-525 You might not have a lot of time to write--though when you do, you clearly zing (this is one amazing post)--but from your description, you must be close to the origins of language--at least according to a recent podcast on <a href="http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~clgroks/" rel="nofollow">Berkeley Groks. On it, a guy named Jake Page claims that early females invented language as a way to keep their babies from crying when they put them down in order to attend to other things. I have no idea if this is true or not. The podcast is called “Prehistoric Females” (5/23), it was an interview with Jake Page, author of <a href="http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/03/21/cavewoman/" rel="nofollow"><i>The Invisible Sex</i></a>. </a> You might not have a lot of time to write–though when you do, you clearly zing (this is one amazing post)–but from your description, you must be close to the origins of language–at least according to a recent podcast on Berkeley Groks.
On it, a guy named Jake Page claims that early females invented language as a way to keep their babies from crying when they put them down in order to attend to other things. I have no idea if this is true or not.
The podcast is called “Prehistoric Females” (5/23), it was an interview with Jake Page, author of The Invisible Sex.

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