At 21:46 8.5.2004, Ray Brown wrote:
>On Friday, May 7, 2004, at 10:26 PM, Mark P. Line wrote:
>[snip]
>
>B. Philip Jonsson:
>An unambiguous language would not be amenable to change, and since human
>culture changes it would eventually be discarded.
>
>
>What makes you say that an unambiguous language would not be amenable to
>change?
Because ambiguity is what drives change in natural languages.
>Yes, indeed. Even to remain unambiguous it will need to change as human
>knowledge & understanding develop. But once humans start using any such
>language, it's bound surely to change - 'tis the nature of humans. A
>language which didn't change would be well & truly dead IMHO.
Would there be any need to change or refine what is already unambiguous?
/BP 8^)
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