Man has an instinctive tendency to speak as we see in the babble of our young children while no child has an instinctive tendency to bake brew or write More than a century ago Charles Darwin got it right language is a human instinct but written language is not Language is found in all societies present and past Although languages change they do not improve English is no more complex than the languages of Stone Age tribes modern English is not an advance of Old English All healthy children master their language without lessons or corrections When children are thrown together without a usable language they invent one of their own Compare all this with writing