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Evolution of Languages

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Zhimbo
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12-09-2003 1:02 PM 		Reply to: Message 4 by Dr Jack
12-09-2003 11:07 AM

"English usage of fifty, sixty years ago is not english usage of today. Heck, there's plenty of language I use regularly now that didn't exist twenty years ago."
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That's just MICRO-evolution. That doesn't prove anything.
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" full language->pigin->creole transitions can be seen inside a single lifetime."
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Oh sure. Not even atheist scientists accept Stephen Gouldschmidts Punctuated Hopeful Monsterlibria theory of language evolution.
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