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Re: THEORY: Question about the evolution of language

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 7, 1999, 5:16
Hese Kiel wrote:
> My dad had twin uncles who had their own languages. Well, it happens > all the time.
Well, from what I've heard, they're usually distortions of their parents' language. My late father and his brother were identical twins with such a language. I'll have to ask my uncle some day if he remembers anything about it. I know they stopped using it early on. -- "If all Printers were determin'd not to print any thing till they were sure it would offend no body, there would be very little printed" - Benjamin Franklin http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files/ http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ #: 18656696 AIM screen-name: NikTailor