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How are biological evolution and linguistic evolution similar?

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01-31-2008 10:58 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by akhenaten
01-30-2008 8:04 AM

It's definitely a conscious and deliberate act. We made up the word television because we needed a word to describe the device.
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Language evolution happens through the gradual accumulation of random non-directed changes in the variation present in the vocabulary, syntax, and grammar of a language.
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Yeah right.
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