And you thought Irish was challenging!

Redwolf · **Posted:** Sat 04 Oct 2014 12:10 am

http://www.cracked.com/article_21556_th ... rc=fanpage

JulieA · **Posted:** Sat 04 Oct 2014 1:45 am

Redwolf wrote:

http://www.cracked.com/article_21556_the-5-craziest-human-languages-spoken-around-world.html?wa_ibsrc=fanpage

Such an encouraging article - loved the comments on it - makes Irish seem like a piece of cake! I'll just keep eating away at Irish. Well found.
JulieA

Redwolf · **Posted:** Sat 04 Oct 2014 5:50 am

JulieA wrote:

Redwolf wrote:

http://www.cracked.com/article_21556_the-5-craziest-human-languages-spoken-around-world.html?wa_ibsrc=fanpage

Such an encouraging article - loved the comments on it - makes Irish seem like a piece of cake! I'll just keep eating away at Irish. Well found.
JulieA

These articles from "Cracked" turn up on my Facebook newsfeed...often they're quite interesting.

Redwolf

Jay Bee · **Joined:** Tue 15 Nov 2011 7:35 am **Posts:** 1098

Quote:

Linguists have posited that !Xóõ, or something like it, may in fact be the world's oldest language. As we migrated out of Africa our communications radically diverged, and all but a few lost their ancient clicks.

That assumption rests on a number of faulty premises, a few of which would be easy for anyone to guess

This article talks about the original paper:
http://languagesoftheworld.info/bad-lin ... heory.html

Jay Bee · **Joined:** Tue 15 Nov 2011 7:35 am **Posts:** 1098

I would also like to point out that communication is the faculty of being able to signal and convey information while communications is the field of study of media and communication technology. Why these get mixed up is a mystery to me

Other similar examples:
art/the arts
memory/memories
love/loves [i.e. lovers]
science/sciences
water/waters
etc

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