But the words can come in a phonetic English form, Chinese characters and even spoken form.

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And though paleoanthropologists are coming around to the view that Neanderthals developed sophisticated ways to communicate, including some form of spoken language, they may have lacked the rich vocabulary or symbolic structure we take for granted today.

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There are also other languages around: Manx, on the Isle of Man, a form of Norse (not spoken natively any more), Lallans, or Lowland Scots many argue is a separate language rather than the creole others argue it is.

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In a business meeting, ideas could be clearly expressed in spoken words, but they are captured, explained, and sold up the chain in written form.

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And I have found that those guys - many times those songs like what your guest is talking about, those are just street prophets that are bringing messages to the masses and the music form can allow us to receive things that we may not receive if they were spoken to us.

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There, wit is a form of action, and music and poetry create and release emotions too private to be spoken.

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