relative weirdness (was Re: signal and noise in phonologiesand scripts)

Roger Mills wrote:
> Wasn't it Mark Twain who said (I paraphrase):   "When I was 20,
> I thought my father was totally ignorant.  When I was 40, I was
> surprised to see how much he had learned over the years."
I have it on file (source unknown) as:
        When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could
        hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be
        twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned
        in seven years.

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