Re: THEORY: Question about the evolution of language

Ed a =E9crit :
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Not to mention the fact that except for a very close phonetic
transcription, *all* written language departs from speech patterns.
Ask any professional writer who's taken the trouble to compare written
dialogue to transcriptions of tape-recorded dialogue -- when we are
producing spontaneous, conversational speech, we do not produce the
distinct, connected, clear sentences that we do in writing, even in
very conversational-sounding writing.
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you're very right. and the structure of sentences
may be very different from one another's like in french speaking is
mostly Topic-S/O-V while writing is S-V-O.
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Therefore, in a sense, all written language is a "conlang" because it
is artificially different from natural speech -- which clearly is an
unacceptable stretching of the term.
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"artificially" or "socially" ?
time, space and my neighbour.

Ed Heil      =20

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