ôWe speculated what it was like before we got language skills. When we humans had our first thought, most likely we didnÆt know what to think. ItÆs hard to think without words æcause you havenÆt got a clue as to what youÆre thinking. So if you think we suffer from a lack of communication now, think what it must have been like then, when people lived in a æverbal voidÆ - made worse by the fact that there were no words such as æverbal voidæ.ö Jane Wagner