--- 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.
--gary