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They're sort of second-language learners struggling along.
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What you might have expected would be
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the children would then use whatever system their adults use,
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but they don't.
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They "Creolized" it.
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They take this makeshift communication system developed by adults
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and, again, they turn it
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into a full-blown language,
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suggesting that to some extent
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it's part of our human nature to create languages.
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Also, every normal human has language.
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Not everybody in this room can ride a bicycle.