| Linguists
Silence the Masses
(M.A.N.U) Linguists at the University of Sydney Mines have discovered,
that in any given lifetime a human being utters only one or two
sentences of any importance . According to a paper published by
Dr. Keller and her associates in this month's issue of Silence:
Journal for Anthropological Linguistic Theory and Muffin Recipes
the average research subject's verbal output was utterly irrelevant
99.9999976 percent of the time. Educational background did not cause
any significant factor, as relevant conversation resolves around
practical situations. According to Keller's study, people benefited
more from a single word sentence such as "fire" than hearing
Descartes "cognito ergo sum" over and over again: "in
essence, it really does not matter whether you spend your day reciting
Byron or yodel: the benefit to humanity is the same".
In his study, Keller goes on to argue that although speech evolved
as an essential survival mechanism , "it is now used to an
absurd excess. Just attend any English literature lecture, and you
will see what I mean". He goes on to state that "humans
could easily communicate anything of importance with grunts and
groans . The Fox television network has already shown this to great
effect". When asked what his findings mean, Keller fell silent.
Latest reports have it, that he has not said a word since .
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