Plainly, children learn their language. I don't speak Swahili. And it cannot be that my language is 'an innate property of our brain.' Otherwise I would have been genetically programmed to speak (some variety of) English.

Picture Quotes Maker

Top Authors

• Michael Jordan

  Basketball Player

  Sunday, Feb 17, 1963
  

• Jordan Peterson

  Psychologist

  
  

• Thomas Jefferson

  3Rd US President

  Saturday, Apr 13, 1743
  Tuesday, Jul 04, 1826

• Edgar Allan Poe

  Author

  Thursday, Jan 19, 1809
  Sunday, Oct 07, 1849

• Albert Camus

  Author

  Friday, Nov 07, 1913
  Monday, Jan 04, 1960

• Abraham Lincoln

  16Th U.S. President

  Sunday, Feb 12, 1809
  Saturday, Apr 15, 1865

• Francis Of Assisi

  Saint

  Thursday, Jun 24, 1182
  Saturday, Oct 03, 1226

• Sun Tzu

  Strategist

  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970

• Aldous Huxley

  Writer

  Thursday, Jul 26, 1894
  Friday, Nov 22, 1963

• Billy Graham

  Evangelist

  Thursday, Nov 07, 1918
  

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

  34Th U.s. President

  Tuesday, Oct 14, 1890
  Friday, Mar 28, 1969

• Marcus Aurelius

  Roman Emperor

  Saturday, Apr 26, 0121
  Friday, Mar 17, 0180

• Deepak Chopra

  Author

  Wednesday, Oct 22, 1947
  

• William Blake

  Poet

  Monday, Nov 28, 1757
  Sunday, Aug 12, 1827

• Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military Commander

  Tuesday, Aug 15, 1769
  Saturday, May 05, 1821