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The question that we should ask, therefore, is not ‘‘Why did the first speaker try to communicate if no one was around who shared her talents?’’ The answer to this is easy: ‘‘She didn’t. It would have been useless.’’ A much better question is ‘‘Why would anyone engage in language-like behavior when she had no intention of communicating?’’
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