Re: Deeper relations of Chinese

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 09/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:21:09 GMT

Harlan Messinger wrote:
>
> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> news:41508049.3C3B@worldnet.att.net...
> > Harlan Messinger wrote:
> >
> > > > > I think a more appropriate analogy would be balloon inflation. Is it
> > > > > possible that it didn't occur to anyone to use their genetically-determined
> > > > > ability to seal their lips over a balloon's intake and to inflate it with
> > > > > their lungs until millennia after that ability existed? Or does balloon
> > > > > inflation necessarily go back to the first primate with the necessary
> > > lip
> > > > > consistency and control and the necessary lung power?
> > > >
> > > > You have been reading too much Mixmaniac.
> > >
> > > That, sir, is uncalled for. (Gauntlet meets cheek.) Why you don't think my
> > > balloon analogy is apt?
> >
> > You have a better recent source of non sequiturs?
> >
> > Balloons aren't a product of evolution, but of intelligent design.
>
> ?? I'm not sure whether you're being serious or not. Do you know what
> "intelligent design" means? It's not a literal term.

Are you under the impression that balloons occur in nature? 

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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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