Thought on natural languages
It seems to me that natural languages tend to be mnemonic in nature.
They do not, necessarily follow a literal, logical interpretation.
They appear to have metaphorical qualities, but the way they "connect"/"relate" to each other seems often to have arbitrary chosen symbols, that came about to support human memorisation. The explanation may be anthropological in nature, that is we have long standing spoken traditions, the way knowledge was "cultured" and propagated between and across generations was through practising of spoken traditions. This required effective techniques supporting cognitive constraints. These "cognitive constraints" are likely approximately normally distributed among the human population, and thus language will tend to be formed toward the norm, but will also be practised and used with varying levels of richness, and expressiveness and complexity connected to the individuals verbal and cognitive abilities.
However still. I propose as a conjecture, (Perhaps which answer already established) that language is mnemonic in its structure and this is closely connected to the structure human cognition.
I leave it to myself and to any reader who cares to make a more rigorous formulation of this idea.
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