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These Cro-Magnon people were identical to us: they had the same physique, the same brain, the same looks. And, unlike all previous hominids who roamed the earth, they could choke on food. That may seem a trifling point, but the slight evolutionary change that pushed man's larynx deeper into his throat, and thus made choking a possibility, also brought with it the possibility of sophisticated, well articulated speech. Other mammals have no contact between their air passages and oesophagi. They can breathe and swallow at the same time, and there is no possibility of food going down the wrong way. But with Homo sapiens food and drink must pass over the larynx on the way to the gullet and thus there is a constant risk that some will be inadvertently inhaled. In modern humans, the lowered larynx isn't in position from birth. It descends sometime between the ages of three and five months - curiously, the precise period when babies are likely to suffer from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. At all events, the descended larynx explains why you can speak and your dog cannot.


Bill Bryson


#bill-bryson #cro-magnon #language #mammals #mother-tongue

It's not important whether someone is a gourmet. Everyone wants to eat and knows that food is crucial to live. But everyone has his own special reaction toward food. One person can become so excited about a certain dish that his eyes sparkle and his muscles harden, while someone else shovels in the same dish without paying any thought to what he's eating. A gourmet appreciates beauty. Gourmets eat slowly and thoughtfully experience taste - they don't rush through a meal and leave the table as soon as they're done. People who are not gourmets don't see cooking as an art. Gourmandism is an interested in everything that can be eaten, and this deep affection for food birthed the art of cooking. Other animals have limited tastes, some eating only plants and others subsisting solely on but, but humans are omnivores. They can eat everything. Love for delicious food is the first emotion gourmets feel. Sometimes that love can't be thwarted, not by anything.


Kyung-Ran Jo


#art

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.


Robert MacNeil


#after #became #been #biting #both

We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.


Bode Miller


#bent #car #cheek #coach #cream

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.


David Ogilvy


#believe #cheek #copy #got #just

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.


George Dennison Prentice


#govern #many #men #might #multitudes

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.


Baruch Spinoza


#difficulty #govern #men #moderate #more

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.


William Shakespeare


#books #brooks #everything #exempt #finds

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.


Omar N. Bradley


#am #best #convinced #general #his

Give thy thoughts no tongue.


William Shakespeare


#thoughts #thy #tongue






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