To: webstersII
"Yes, but they are still language. They haven't evolved over time into some radically new entity. They can have different characteristics but they are still of the same original base type."
Yes, absolutely true. I mean, when was the last time you saw a language sprout wings or turn into a lizard? Or a lizard turn into a dialect of Mandarin? Until that happens, evolution is just a theory and takes a lot of faith to believe in it.
To: CarolinaGuitarman
Hee, hee, hee, hee!!!
(Classic)
1,239 posted on
05/04/2006 8:53:58 AM PDT by
2nsdammit
(By definition it's hard to get suicide bombers with experience.)
To: CarolinaGuitarman
(Of course, I have seen perfectly good words evolve into anachronisms. And gutteral utterances turn into words! Yo, yo, yo!)
1,241 posted on
05/04/2006 8:57:32 AM PDT by
2nsdammit
(By definition it's hard to get suicide bombers with experience.)
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