DDeden Wrote:
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> Knucklewalkers? No, sorry, I was talking about
> *Human ancestors* and the development of Human
> language, and the very early common words,
> relating to waterside tool technology, and whether
> these words were used in AE OK.

Yes -- and your claim is that you know what sounds were made 10 million years ago and how those words started developing.

But we never went through a swimming/floating/aquatic phase (your post makes reference to it and to a lot of other things) and 10 million years ago we were small monkey-like things. I wanted to see how you intended to link words from relatively modern and non-isolate languages (like Pitor points out) to a 10 million year old language... and how you prove the monkey-like things had a language. And how you were going to prove that as they evolved they carried their language along with them and how you knew conclusively which parts were signficant.

> Shall I open up a new thread about human evolution
> in another forum?

Nope. I'm familiar with it (I do some work for a paleontology lab.) I'm just wondering where you get your claims about speech ability from about face structure, etc. I like to look at the bones. People may lie or misinterpret the record, but the bones don't lie.