Re: Language superiority, improvement, etc.
| From: | Christopher Palmer <reid@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 15, 1998, 23:09 |
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On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, charles wrote:
> As for natlangs, over time they must tend to a common,
> rough equality of overall usefulness, for reasons far
> beyond the scope of my laziness to even attempt to detail.
It's okay to be lazy, but please go back and read the first message I
posted on this topic (my mind boggles that it is not the last message!).
In it, I gave the reason for the rough equality of natlangs that all human
cultures face problems of roughly equal difficulty ("survive in this
environment"), and human language adapts to meet the challenge.
End of story, people. Quit talking out of your asses and get back to
conlanging.
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