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Re: Easy and Interesting Languages -- Website

From:Mark P. Line <mark@...>
Date:Friday, May 28, 2004, 19:12
Andreas Johansson said:
> Quoting "Mark P. Line" <mark@...>: > >> >> I therefore believe that anybody who wants to claim that Cham has never >> undergone creolization should be prepared to show evidence, and that the >> rest of us have no particular reason to believe it until she does. > > I would agree if I believed that exactly 50% of all languages have > undergone > creolization at some point in their development, and 50% not.
So instead, you believe that exactly N% of all languages have undergone creolization at some point in their development, and 100-N% not, and that it therefore makes sense to bias your going-in assumption based on whether N is greater or less than 50? Where did you come up with the value of N, and what is it? -- Mark

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