Stirling Newberry wrote:

>Music predates language, this much is definitively provable.

I, for one, would like to examine this proof.  While I am not aware of any
proof that the reverse is true, it seems to me, absent musical notation or
instruments predating language, that this would be very difficult to prove
indeed.

I am not scoffing, merely skeptical.

David Simmons
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