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=
ch
> 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. :)
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