Re: NAT/CONLANG: "Lone gene linked to language skills"(wasRe: Is "ma" Proto-World? )

From: "J Y S Czhang" <czhang23@...>
>     In _The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_ by John McWhorter,
> McWhorter writes:
>     "... Like animals and plants, languages change, split into subvarieties,
> hybridize, revivify, evolve functionless features, and can even be
> genetically altered [YiPPie!]. The analogy continues in that languages, like
> animals and plants, can go extinct [ :/] ."
I think it is the words that are like animals; a language is more like a species
of animal.  Or, possibly, a habitat, with synonyms as animals in different
habitats sharing the same biological niche... um...

    *Muke!
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