Nothing new under the sun

[robinturner]

This article reports research that makes the amazing claim that what distinguishes human language from animal communication is recursion. Pardon me, but hasn't this idea been around for ages? If not, I thought of it first.

Comments

[drx.livejournal.com]

um, i didn't read the article, but it says that it is about turkey guts, and there are pictures too!

[solri.livejournal.com]

Bloody clipboard! That was the article I was reading before.

Still, I think I'll keep it that way - recycling, recursion, what the hell.

[drx.livejournal.com]

i rather enjoyed the misdirection. *smile*

[(Anonymous)]

I'd rather see the original article. Guts, eww.

[solri.livejournal.com]

The original article (http://www.discover.com/may_03/breaksay.html).

It turned out to be one of those annoying sites (like my own) where the displayed URL stays the same when you click around the site.

[(Anonymous)]

Pssh. He worked with Chomsky, which explains why it was so important.