Re: a "natural language" ?

--- Rodlox <Rodlox@...> wrote:

>  yep, back to this fun.  :)
>
>   rather than ask for the technical mumbo-jumbo of
> "what makes a language
> seem natural or fake?".....I'll ask something
> better....
>
>  What natural language in the real world, if you
> only encountered it for the
> first time today or tomorrow, would you say "no,
> that's not a natural
> language" ?
>
>  thoughts?
>
Piraha is so delightfully wierd that I doubt most
anyone would believe it was a natural language at
first. After all, people thought the person
researching it (Name? Dear monkies, I've forgotten the
name!) was lying.


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