What do you think is the greatest invention ever is?

I gotta prefer the toilet paper one.. I heard a rumour that scientists somewhere are working on a way to make 4-ply toilet paper.. Sounds more like science fiction to me :)

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Originally Posted by GHoSToKeR

I gotta prefer the toilet paper one.. I heard a rumour that scientists somewhere are working on a way to make 4-ply toilet paper.. Sounds more like science fiction to me :)

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Whahaaa, who has the hook-up?????????

Oway lads! I don't want this to turn into a shit thread :D

Dude seriously, this 4-ply is going to be so strong, absorbant and soft on the skin that the military are planning to develop suits made out of it for infantry.

Here's a prototype..

dude, howd you get my mug shot?????

Next thing you know, 4-ply antigrav TP Spacesuits. NASA already has patent rights.

Sorry CAmbam, enough...OK

I see your point, but the capacity for language comes built in. Particular kinds of languages developed, but language itself you're born with.

I should stress, I supposed, that this is an opinion. Nobody is certain about this and the linguistics community is very divided on the issue.

But this is a thread about opinions, so ...

Also, I don't really know what I'm talking about.:stoned:

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Originally Posted by stinkyattic

I disagree that language was discovered; DEVELOPED perhaps... but WRITTEN language...particularly phonic alphabets... the concept of making pictures that equate to sounds of language is a fabulously abstract one and IMO really marks a turning point in humans' ability to communicate. When a society develops a sense of its own history and feels the need to record it, it has really come of age.

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Exactly...
You're born with the capacity to learn language. And any language skills you aquire are from your surroundings after birth... if no one in your household talks, you simply won't learn to speak yourself. If people around you communicate on a really limited level, that is also going to affect your language development, slowing it down significantly... seriously how many kids who are treated as having learning disabilities are just the victims of parents who never really talked to them much, or used very poor language themselves? Wow this is getting off subject ima shut up now!

I'm thinking, as a SPECIES, when humans first started communicating verbally.

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Originally Posted by dannyboy420

That's easy: the printing press.

Without it, we wouldn't have had all the computers, telephones, and lightbulbs other people are mentioning.

Also, fire and languange don't count because they weren't invented -- they were discovered.

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language wasnt discovered, it wasn't like all of the sudden after banging two rocks together out popped the english language. for language to have been discovered that would mean it was already in existance. which it was not. to communicate is an instinct, but to communicate thoughts and ideas requires a language which humans over time, invented. the definition of invent is 'to create by thought, to make or design (something that did not exist before)' language was created by thought. and as far as humans go , it did not exist before, therefore language was invented.

The English language occurs naturally, in nature. Fact. :D

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