Lecture Listening and Note-taking Independent Study unit 3:
Monitoring 6
My answer But I think there's actually something much more interesting and fundamental going on here. The next big thing for me, the next big idea, we can find by going way back in history to the origins of language. Most linguists agree that we started speaking somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago. That's along time ago. A lot of humans have lived since then. We've been talking, I guess, about fires and caves and sabre-toothed tigers. I don't
know what they talked about, but they were doing a lot of talking, and like I said, there's a lot
of humans evolving speaking, about 100 billion people in fact. What's important though is that writing only emerged about 5,000 years ago. So what that means is that
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