>The feature of language that seems the most surprisingly powerful is placeholder words. The words like "someone", "somewhere", "somehow". >I call these the ent

>The feature of language that seems the most surprisingly powerful is placeholder words. The words like "someone", "somewhere", "somehow". >I call these the entropy words because they are the words for the information you don't have. They represent sets of possible things rather than a literal specific thing. As an aside, you might know this, but that's how questions are formed in Chinese. You basically use an enunciative phrase with a placeholder word in the information you're missing ("this pencil is whose", "the dog is where", etc). Going back to the point, I'm not sure whether the limitations of the language are actually a limitation of the brain that uses it. Sure, if you get into your mind that you want to ask a question, and the opposing party is able to understand that, even gestures will do with a little bit of ingenuity. But that has a lot of prerequisites: you need understanding that some information can be useful to you, understanding that other living beings own that information, some abstract thinking to express an idea that is not literal... It's not even about questions I think, there's a jump between "tiger here now" and "tiger potentially here at some point, watch". But still, questions particularly seem to be a clear cut "non existent outside of humans", even in weird emergent forms. There must be a reason they're not there, right?