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Re: The WD theory

From:Christian Köttl <christian.koettl@...>
Date:Thursday, December 8, 2005, 22:01
I have to admit that I had to google first just to be sure the
original blog entry was satirical. Only then I dared to comment ... .
I should have been formulating more carefully, though. Sorry for any
misunderstandings.

And now on to conlanging pleasures!

>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. >-- >Mark J. Reed <<mailto:markjreed@...>markjreed@mail.com>