If, as many people suggest, we do away with labels, we will be left with no nouns. At that point, not only will all sentences fail to work at all, but language will disintegrate AND there will be no way to order whatever you want to drink at the pub.
Or you’d just have to use noun classifiers or something – and then life gets even more complicated from that stage.
Let me know when you’ve made a new language and I’ll get right on to it …
Have a look at writing without nouns too.
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February 10th, 2010 at 20:24
why not stop human communication altogether?
benefits: no new language required, no further development of binary / gender label issues.
cons: i’ll never talk to you again.
February 10th, 2010 at 23:23
also, we’d both be out of jobs. no, i say let’s keep communication. on IM at least.