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Re: Language Corruption

From:Don Blaheta <dpb@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 26, 1999, 16:07
Quoth Garrett:
> Here's my theory: Languages are becoming more corrupted through time. > Look at the languages of today - they have all sorts of > idiosyncracies, irregularities, idioms, and stuff like that. Look at > the ancient languages like Latin or Greek - they may have a bunch of > cases and stuff, but at least they're regular, AFAIK.
Ha! Was that a troll? Whether or not, it's one of the funnier posts I've read in a while. ;) -- -=-Don Blaheta-=-=-dpb@cs.brown.edu-=-=-<http://www.cs.brown.edu/~dpb/>-=- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. -- Samuel Butler