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(excerpt from an article published on the NRP web site August 10, 2011).
"Speech...is the most complex motor activity that any person acquires — except [for] maybe violinists or acrobats. It takes about 10 years for children to get to the adult levels," says Dr. Philip Lieberman, a professor of cognitive and linguistic science at Brown University who has studied the evolution of speech for more than five decades.
Lieberman says that, looking back at human evolution, it's evident that after humans diverged from an early ape ancestor, the shape of the vocal tract changed. Over 100,000 years ago, the human mouth started getting smaller and protruding less. We developed a more flexible tongue that could be controlled more precisely, and a longer neck.
The reason the neck started getting longer, Lieberman says, is that the tongue moved down, pulling the larynx lower, requiring more room for it all in the neck. "The first time we see human skulls — fossils — that have everything in place is about 50,000 years ago where the neck is long enough, the mouth is short enough, that they could have had a vocal tract like us," he says.
So linguistic experts think humans have been engaging in oral communications for approximately 50,000 years. This has been going on for some time.
Why in the hell is this relevant to post on a basketball board? Well, I submit that something was said on Sunday (by a human being) that was the stupidest thing ever spoken during this span of 50,000 years.
“The 13-4 line is where the most upsets are going to be in this tournament. I think Montana beats Syracuse to advance to the next round.”
Seth sh0uld have to wear his new outfit for the rest of his life, as a cautionary tale for people aspiring to become village idiots everywhere. It isn't as great a life as Seth envisioned.
SU clinched the victory late in the first half, when they scored their 35th point. They could have gone scoreless in the second half and still won by 4.
I believe they could have won the game if they played by rules where the only way SU could score
was by dunking the ball.
I believe that if Brandon Triche had played 40 minutes, he would have outscored the Grizzles all by himself.
I felt almost guilty witnessing the horrible carnage. It was like I was rubbernecking as I drove by a gruesome accident on the highway.
"Can't anyone help those poor Grizzlies?". "Why are they letting them suffer like that?". "What could they have done to deserve that?".
Things I liked about Montana:
The physical resemblence of Griz HC Trickle to Gary Gait.
The beard of the injured kid.
Cherry had a couple of nice steals at one point. He immediately threw the ball away or drove into the paint and had his shot blocked in a most humiliating fashion, but for a moment there, he looked like a player.
Cal looked pretty good to me. The skinny kid withe the big ears, Allen Crabbe, looks like a good athlete and their center finished well down low. Should be a good game on Saturday.
"Speech...is the most complex motor activity that any person acquires — except [for] maybe violinists or acrobats. It takes about 10 years for children to get to the adult levels," says Dr. Philip Lieberman, a professor of cognitive and linguistic science at Brown University who has studied the evolution of speech for more than five decades.
Lieberman says that, looking back at human evolution, it's evident that after humans diverged from an early ape ancestor, the shape of the vocal tract changed. Over 100,000 years ago, the human mouth started getting smaller and protruding less. We developed a more flexible tongue that could be controlled more precisely, and a longer neck.
The reason the neck started getting longer, Lieberman says, is that the tongue moved down, pulling the larynx lower, requiring more room for it all in the neck. "The first time we see human skulls — fossils — that have everything in place is about 50,000 years ago where the neck is long enough, the mouth is short enough, that they could have had a vocal tract like us," he says.
So linguistic experts think humans have been engaging in oral communications for approximately 50,000 years. This has been going on for some time.
Why in the hell is this relevant to post on a basketball board? Well, I submit that something was said on Sunday (by a human being) that was the stupidest thing ever spoken during this span of 50,000 years.
“The 13-4 line is where the most upsets are going to be in this tournament. I think Montana beats Syracuse to advance to the next round.”
Seth sh0uld have to wear his new outfit for the rest of his life, as a cautionary tale for people aspiring to become village idiots everywhere. It isn't as great a life as Seth envisioned.
SU clinched the victory late in the first half, when they scored their 35th point. They could have gone scoreless in the second half and still won by 4.
I believe they could have won the game if they played by rules where the only way SU could score
was by dunking the ball.
I believe that if Brandon Triche had played 40 minutes, he would have outscored the Grizzles all by himself.
I felt almost guilty witnessing the horrible carnage. It was like I was rubbernecking as I drove by a gruesome accident on the highway.
"Can't anyone help those poor Grizzlies?". "Why are they letting them suffer like that?". "What could they have done to deserve that?".
Things I liked about Montana:
The physical resemblence of Griz HC Trickle to Gary Gait.
The beard of the injured kid.
Cherry had a couple of nice steals at one point. He immediately threw the ball away or drove into the paint and had his shot blocked in a most humiliating fashion, but for a moment there, he looked like a player.
Cal looked pretty good to me. The skinny kid withe the big ears, Allen Crabbe, looks like a good athlete and their center finished well down low. Should be a good game on Saturday.
It was so nice though not to have blood pressure issues or worrying about heart 
