Re: Language change among immortals

veritosproject@gmail.com wrote:

>From what I've seen, the purpose of language evolution is to speed
>thought or speech.  For example, AOLspeak is faster to type than real
>English.
Are you really saying that all sound changes are lenition? How would you
explain sound changes like [r] -> [R\] (French / German), [ts] -> [T:] ->
[ts] (Finnish) or [i:] -> [ai] (English)?

John Vertical