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Re: Language superiority, improvement, etc.

From:Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 14, 1998, 17:43
Matt Pearson wrote:

> > Amen. It may not be easy, it may take many many versions, but here at > > conlang we are all blazing the trail of accelerated language evolutio=
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> > Are we? That's news to me. Myself, I'm trying to create something whi=
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> mimics as closely as possible the complexities and eccentricities of > naturally occuring human languages.
Again, what he meant to say was rather that, whether or not we are consious of it, we are in many ways contributing to learning about how languages interact with one another by doing it ourselves. His statement was only ambiguous, and you read it the opposite way he intended. :) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Tom Wier <artabanos@...> ICQ#: 4315704 AIM: Deuterotom Website: <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/eclectorium/> "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero." "Schlie=DFt den heil'gen Zirkel dichter, Schw=F6rt bei diesem goldnen Wein, Dem Gel=FCbde treu zu sein, Schw=F6rt es bei dem Sternenrichter!" - _Ode an die Freude_, J. F. von Schiller =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =0D