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Letter: If you make tools, you know the first words

Published 5 June 2019

From John Cleveland, Bloomington, Indiana, US

I read your article on the origins of language in music, mime and mimicry with interest (4 May, p 34). Those of us who make things with our hands know the origins of tool-making language and terminology. The first words would have been “Aaargh”, then “F@#k”! Some things never change.

Issue no. 3233 published 8 June 2019

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