Also, he is wrong.
The space outside the Noosphere is littered with the silently drifting corpses of words and whole language systems, dead and unchanging, forever cut off from being processed by any living mind.

I will accept the assertion that her 3 year old son is smarter than her at face value.

I met a toddler who probably only knows about 5 words today at work. He would continually say “Hi, Hi, Hi, Hi, Hi, Hi, Hi…” the entire time he saw me. granted I only saw him for about 5 minutes but little dude was about to explode with all his ‘hi’-s
His dad looked so tired 😭

Fun fact: written words only appear to last forever because people forgot the words that don’t last forever.
Had that showerthought thought after a gummy and bout exploded my mind.

applies to words as well