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At 2:56 PM -0800 on 1/14/03, Bill Stewart wrote:
> And while some of the edges have been bashed off of irregular
> verbs, if you'd a-been fixin' to talk about some verb forms being
> simpler, you shouldn't'a started out pickin' Southern grammar as an
At 02:48 PM 1/14/03 -0800, Michael Motyka wrote:
>I guess bifurcation points and speciation seem very clear because of
the aliasing
>problems in our sampling methods. The speciation exists but is prolly (
probably ) often
>fuzzier than we think. Almost everyone would say that an American Bison
and
At 12:47 PM 01/14/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Some of this is natural. I've adopted the southern "y'all" because
English has no plural third person and this
ambiguity is annoying when you're emailing to several people. Note also
the efficiency of the contraction.
"You" and "Y'all" a
"Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :
>On Ken's
>> > All contemporary natural languages, like all biological species, are
>> > the same age.
>
>At first this parsed because I was thinking in the sense of
>"all organisms have ancestries going back the same amount of
>time". (And humans
On Ken's
> > All contemporary natural languages, like all biological species, are
> > the same age.
At first this parsed because I was thinking in the sense of
"all organisms have ancestries going back the same amount of
time". (And humans aren't the 'goal' of evolution.) Not sure
if non-biohea
