Chapter 8 - What Are You Saying?
A BOOK IN A BLOG PROJECT Chapter 8 - What Are You Saying? BY PATRICK HO Humans like to talk. In fact, we must talk. Without communication - oral or written - there is no understanding, no learning, and ultimately, no progress. When the first human developed language, I wonder how long that process took? And was English the first language invented? An excerpt from Wikipedia states: “Writing first appeared in the Near East at the end of the 4th millennium BC.” (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_first_written_account ) My guess is there are likely languages that predate this, still undiscovered or forever unknown to mankind. Funnily enough, English was certainly not the first, but here we are - me writing in English, and you, the reader, reading in this language! The Balance of Speech Talking is essential, whether we are certain of the facts or not. Life, after all, is a balancing act; nothing is permanent, including ...
