Re: Edenics

Quoting Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:

> --- Joe <joe@...> wrote:
> > Andreas Johansson wrote:
> >
> > >Quoting "Mark P. Line" <mark@...>:
> > >
>
> <snip>
>
> > >>
> > >> The fringe literature of self-appointed
> > amateur linguistics is
> > >>full of this crap. "All languages are descended
> > from X!" where X can be
> > >>Sanskrit, Proto-Hebrew, PIE, Ancient Japanese, or
> > whatever.)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >Why do they always pick some gaga old language? It
> > would be much funnier to
> > >prove that all languages descend from 19th C
> > Rioplatense Spanish.
> > >
>
> Or better yet, create a brand new conlang that all the
> other languages are descended from.
Unfortunately, that's already done. Check out Patrick C. Ryan's work:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/

                                                   Andreas