Wagner-Tomlin Language-Genesis Theory

[Jonathan Lighter]

Popular on Internet, but not in YBQ:

1985 Jane Wagner _The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe_
 [at Wikiquote] :  It's my belief we developed language because of our deep
inner need to complain.

The phrase is usually associated with Lily Tomlin, star of the production.

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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