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Re: Edenics

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, June 12, 2004, 16:53
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