Re: http://www.freefarts.com/farts.html

From: Matthew Fields (spam_at_uce.gov)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:15:12 GMT

In article <602faa6b.0411170526.7962569@posting.google.com>,
Michael Baldwin Bruce <mbbruce@mighty.co.za> wrote:
>"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>news:<419A9FD7.4678@worldnet.att.net>...
>> alexV wrote:
>> >
>> > "Jacques Guy" <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
>> > news:419A7C5B.6B3E@alphalink.com.au...
>> >
>> > >Language could have evolved...
>> > > from the *other end*, and be functional.
>> >
>> > Why not? Once upon a time......
>> >
>> > That must be another example of a typo or something. They meant "on the
>> > other hand, and be functional," I swear.
>>
>> Hunh? I have pointed out from time to time that the particular
>> noise-making bits of the body that happened to be seized upon by
>> evolution to be the vehicle of language are quite arbitrary.
>
>Are you implying that you can talk out of your ass, Daniels?
>You indeed seem to posess that ability.

Even the use of sound is arbitrary, though it does have its advantages.
It works around corners, for instance. But visual signals work across
a busy crowd... 

-- 
        Matthew H. Fields http://personal.www.umich.edu/~fields
                         Music: Splendor in Sound
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