Re: The WD theory
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 8, 2005, 20:21 |
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In case anyone didn't get the joke, "Wrathful Dispersion" is not real; the
whole thing is just a parody of the Intelligent Design brouhaha currently
making headlines (and, sadly, head*way*) in the USA. Recasting the debate
into a linguistic context makes it all the more ludicrous - especially if
you're a linguist by [a]vocation. So I thought y'all would enjoy it. (I
especially like the guarded admission that the Romance languages *might*
have actually come from Latin, but that doesn't prove anything about the
more general case. :)
Still, as a resident of Cobb "Evolution Is Just A Theory; It Says So On Our
Textbooks" County, Georgia, I find the whole thing just a little too
plausible; it makes me laugh, but it's more of a nervous chuckle than a
hearty guffaw.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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