Lingua Adamica, Grice on

Kramer is right when in "Back to the implicatum" comment -- he comments to the effect that "Lingua Latina" could not have been spawned direct "from the head of Jupiter", or his brain.

He, Kramer, suggests that, with time, people needed to decline, and conjugate, etc.

I'm not so sure. It seems to me that while "I" and "me" refer to the same thing -- they were never meant as related, in the origin. They seem to call for _different_ roots. Perhaps in the Aryan original mind, the concept of "I" subject and the concept of "me" accusative were _different_. They _are_.

Now, 'lingua adamica' is sometimes used for whatever Adam spoke. It all came to 'tumbles' as they say, with Babel.

Firth, who Grice COULD have read, spoke of the "Babelisation" of things in his "Tongues of Men".

Grice discusses pooh-pooh in WoW:RE. He thinks that language started as interjectional: ouch, puajj, wow, fooh! Only later the need for verbs, articles, and the rest of them.

Etc.