Neanderthals could speak like modern humans, study suggests

[Gerald]

http://i1358.photobucket.com/albums/q764/gasturbin/_63621607_face_colouradjust_zps527ff1e4.jpg (http://s1358.photobucket.com/user/gasturbin/media/_63621607_face_colouradjust_zps527ff1e4.jpg.html)
Neanderthals may have had complex language.

An analysis of a Neanderthal's fossilised hyoid bone - a horseshoe-shaped structure in the neck - suggests the species had the ability to speak.

This has been suspected since the 1989 discovery of a Neanderthal hyoid that looks just like a modern human's.

He seems to have talked in an understandable way,however, he needs a haircut if he will stand for any studio program :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25465102, I forgot to add the link :oops:


Note: 20 December 2013 Last updated at 16:06 GMT

[Sailor Steve]

My only question is, why did they use a picture of Chuck Norris?

[BrucePartington]

Sometimes I swear they are still among us :hmmm:

[BrucePartington]

My only question is, why did they use a picture of Chuck Norris?
:haha::har::har::rotfl2::rock:

[Sailor Steve]

Sometimes I swear they are still among us :hmmm:
I've known people who looked like certain representations of Homo Neanderthalis, and I once worked with a Mexican guy who had a very lean hatchet face. I swear he looked just like a Mayan pictogram.

[Aktungbby]

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Neanderthals may have had complex language He seems to have talked in an understandable way,
" Now remember rule one about breakfast kids...don't stray far from the cave and stay away from any hungry Cro-magnons! and be courteous to our unmodified Sasquatch cuz's!":O:

[Gerald]

^LOL :)

[Jimbuna]

My only question is, why did they use a picture of Chuck Norris?

Closest looking thing to a modern day Neanderthal :hmmm:

[Diopos]

Sometimes I swear they are still among us :hmmm:

Of course they are, they routinely get elected too!!!
:hmmm: :06: :o

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[Rhodes]

Of course they are, they routinely get elected too!!!
:hmmm: :06: :o

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I think that is disrespectful to the Neanderthals! :stare:

[Catfish]

^ :rotfl2:

I agree :)

Politicians are a low lifeform species which adapt to everything very well,
and thus never die out.

Only joking, of course. :O:

[Sailor Steve]

Only joking, of course. :O:
Why? My only question is whether you have to be a lowlife scumbag to become a politician or if you learn it from on-the-job training? :arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

Either but the former does give one a distinct advantage.

[TarJak]

I suspect that the politician is evolved from lowlife scum.

[u crank]

I suspect that the politician is devolved from lowlife scum.

Fixed. :D

[razark]

I suspect that the politician is evolved from lowlife scum.
There's no reason to go around insulting the lowlife scum community like that!

[Schroeder]

Sometimes I swear they are still among us :hmmm:
Definitely. I served with some in the army back in the day.:yep:

[Cybermat47]

Definitely. I served with some in the army back in the day.:yep:

Wow! So the German Military has actually bought Neanderthals back from extinction!? I know that you're not joking, because The Media told me that Germans don't have a sense of humour. And The Media is our God. Praise The Media.

[Gerald]

^You nail it, the Germans' sense of humor is well known :D

[vienna]

Is this whole Neanderthals speaking like humans theory a possible explanation for the Kardashians, Miley Cysrus, Kanye West, et al?...


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[Wolferz]

I would think that a Neanderthal would sound more like James Earl Jones than Kanye-my poop don't stink-West.:hmmm:

[Stealhead]

^You nail it, the Germans' sense of humor is well known :D


Austria is Germany with a sense of humor.

An Austrian told me that once.

[Schroeder]

Wow! So the German Military has actually bought Neanderthals back from extinction!? I know that you're not joking, because The Media told me that Germans don't have a sense of humour. And The Media is our God. Praise The Media.
If I had been joking there would have been a banana peel in my post. Steve told me that there is no humour (had to look that word up and still don't understand it's meaning...) without banana peels.:huh:

But we did not have to bring them back, they were actually never gone it seems.:doh:

[vienna]

Germans don't find that amusing...


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[Sailor Steve]

Germans don't find that amusing...
Don't find what amusing?

My grandmother was German, you know. Germans also do have a sense of humor. I happen to have a book in my library called The Complete Compendium of German Humor.

I haven't been able to make much sense of it. All the pages are blank.

[vienna]

My second ex was of German descent (her mother and father came to the US after WW2). I long ago heard that line about Austrians being Germans with a sense of humor and repeated it to her and her mother...

Confirmed: Germans do not have a sense of humor...

...and having 2 German women mad at you at the same time is likewise unamusing...


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[Sailor Steve]

...and having 2 German women mad at you at the same time is likewise unamusing...
My friend Rocky and his wife once told me a story...

Rocky and Cathy were having dinner with his parents - his dad a career army and air force sergeant with a lot of good stories to tell, and his mom a girl dad had met in Germany after the war - when for some reason the subject of honey came up. It seems mom kept her own honey, and made the mistake of saying "Norman loves my honey pot." Cathy lost it first, then Rocky, and finally his dad. Mom didn't make matters better by asking, in all seriousness, "Norm, don't you like my honey pot?" Rocky and Cathy both said they might have thought she was faking it, secretly in on the joke, but the more they laughed the more serious and angry mom got.

On the other hand...

I once told the "Compendium" joke to my friend Jacques, whose dad was from Belgium. When I said "Germans have no sense of humor" Jacques replied "Of course Germans have a sense of humor! The elected Hitler dictator, didn't they?"

Sorry to bring Godwin into it, but those were his actual words and I found them funny at the time.

[Madox58]

I haven't been able to make much sense of it. All the pages are blank.
:o
BOTH of them?
:03:

[vienna]

:o
BOTH of them?
:03:


Must have the annotated edition...


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[vienna]

"A German joke is no laughing matter."

MARK TWAIN



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[Jimbuna]

:o
BOTH of them?
:03:

LOL :)

[TarJak]

Makes me wonder what the neanderthal sense of humour was like....

[Madox58]

Makes me wonder what the neanderthal sense of humour was like....

Not very good.
Once they started talking? They killed each other off.
Or maybe when the females started talking they did that.
:hmmm:
:D

Maybe the term "Your boreing me to death" started with them?

[Jimbuna]

Not very good.
Once they started talking? They killed each other off.
Or maybe when the females started talking they did that.
:hmmm:
:D

Maybe the term "Your boreing me to death" started with them?

Either that or the Jocks :hmmm:

[Gerald]

I bet the neanderthal do not speak Swedish :O:

[Madox58]

I bet the neanderthal do not speak Swedish :O:
They had a choice. Speak Swedish or die off.
Guess what they decided?
:haha:

[Gerald]

It's why they disappeared from the earth so fast :D

[TarJak]

Either that or the Jocks :hmmm:

You wouldn't like what you find in a neanderthal's jocks.:Kaleun_Sick:

[Gerald]

http://i1358.photobucket.com/albums/q764/gasturbin/12260726_low_zpse9db8042.jpg (http://s1358.photobucket.com/user/gasturbin/media/12260726_low_zpse9db8042.jpg.html)

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[Jimbuna]

They had a choice. Speak Swedish or die off.
Guess what they decided?
:haha:

Any wonder :)

You wouldn't like what you find in a neanderthal's jocks.:Kaleun_Sick:

A flintstone haggis :03:

[Gerald]

Well,at this time of year, and especially Christmas, I think that a Neanderthal would like a Swedish Christmas dinner :smug:

[Jimbuna]

I thought they were carnivores, not piscivores.

[Gerald]

I thought they were carnivores, not piscivores. LOL :)

[Feuer Frei!]

Well,at this time of year, and especially Christmas, I think that a Neanderthal would like a Swedish Christmas dinner :smug:

Overlord Gerald has spoken. Greetings my friend :salute:

[Gerald]

Overlord Gerald has spoken. Greetings my friend :salute:Thanks Pete! I wish you and your family a real nice Christmas :salute:

[Feuer Frei!]

Thanks Pete! I wish you and your family a real nice Christmas :salute:

Check PM. Or shall we derail your thread and keep going here :haha:
:O:

[Gerald]

Check PM. Or shall we derail your thread and keep going here :haha:
:O: If so, is not the first time a thread derail out....:haha:

[Wolferz]

The Neanderthals seem to be extincting up the place.:shifty:

[Gerald]

Right, they are part of the Christmas spirit :)

[Madox58]

Right, they are part of the Christmas spirit :)

:o
You mean I'm drinking Neanderthals?
:wah:

[Gerald]

Is it for that deer that you have drained the fluid,:doh: sounds like clear hallucination to me :D

[Madox58]

sounds like clear hallucination to me :D
Damned bogging!
:D

[TarJak]

Damned bogging!
:D

:har:

[Gerald]

LOL :O:

[Jimbuna]

Damned bogging!
:D

hehe :)

[Gerald]

I think that's a Neanderthal in all of us :cool:

[Madox58]

In the UK no doubt about it.
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/tydd-steam-neanderthal/122473/

http://www.cavemanbrewery.co.uk/

[Gerald]

If everyone would drink it, so it is not far away to become a caveman :D

[Jimbuna]

In the UK no doubt about it.
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/tydd-steam-neanderthal/122473/

http://www.cavemanbrewery.co.uk/

Prehistoric Amber :yeah:

[Gerald]

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[vienna]

I know this thread is a bit dead, but I couldn't resist this:


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[Catfish]

hmm ok you got me, i do not get what the above has to do with Neanderthals :hmmm:

But then, when i think what all those 'civilised' nations think and do about 'immigrants', i do not think Neanderthals would be welcomed today.
Maybe it was like that back then, and they hid away/died out because of that :yep:

[vienna]

I should have noted there was sub-discussion early on in this topic regarding the lack of a sense of humor among Germans... :)


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[Catfish]

I should have noted there was sub-discussion early on in this topic regarding the lack of a sense of humor among Germans... :)<O>

Ah ok ...

But ... Sub discussions are off-Topic, in General topics :hmph:

[Gerald]

German humor, can be said about, I spent months in the nineties in Germany, and have experienced many aspects of how Germans deal with their language ... and it's fun :)

[Tango589]

Or as Groucho Marx put it: A German joke is no laughing matter.

[vienna]

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[vienna]

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