For language to work, there must be reasoning: "Given the available tooling, how do I communicate this thing or idea?" and "How can I understand what the other

For language to work, there must be reasoning: "Given the available tooling, how do I communicate this thing or idea?" and "How can I understand what the other person just said or wrote?" For broken communication to be fixed, there must be debugging. Discussion and laughter are essential. Human reason is as ancient a capacity as language itself.