Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.
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I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.
I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.
Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.
Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
There are so many deaf kids out there being deprived of their own language.
I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.