Monday, April 2, 2018

a new language

Not too long ago, a hole opened in the middle of the sky and all the words that have ever been spoken in every language were sucked up into the vacuum and the world was left without language.

After some years had passed, there were two men left alone, in a cave.  Each man had two sticks.  They looked at each other, then at their sticks, and one of the men took the two sticks and smacked them together, making a "fwap"ing sound.  The other man looked back into his eyes and then back down at the sticks in his hand, then back up again.  Slowly, he took the two sticks and "fwap".  After a few minutes, the first took the sticks in his hand, this time, two whacks, "fwap, fwap" and the second took the sticks in his hand and went "fwap, fwap" in return.  The two men looked each other in the eye and knew that they were in this together, and thus, a new language was born.

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