Re: The WD theory

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>