Re: The magic of conlang (was: Has anyone made a real conlang?)

>Nature's beauty is skin deep. When you dissect a wild
>animal, you will find several species of parasites
>crawling inside its host. Most of wild species, maybe
>as many as 80% of them, are parasites. Mitochondria
>and other cell organelles are descendants of parasites.
Maybe. At this time, this remains hypothesis, not theory.

>Parasites stabilize ecosystems and are true masters of
>wild nature. If they had not existed, all forms of life
>would have been primitive single cell organisms. You can
>learn more about parasites from Carl Zimmer's book
>"Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's
>Most Dangerous Creatures". Diversity is much more
>important property of wild nature than its beauty:
>http://www.islandone.org/LEOBiblio/DIVERSIT.HTM
But *I* see this as part of the beauty of life & biological systems.

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