Re: Natural Language Praised


Ron Hardin wrote:
> Somebody has this as their .sig
>
> "Natural language has evolved to the present point in a way optimally to
> meet the needs for two-way human communication." -- Vincent E. Guiliano,
> "In Defense of Natural Language," 1972

"evolved" : do you mean to say you have seen progress? where?

many languages have died out, Latin for instance; do you think it was
of a lesser quality?

the problem is that each language is infinite so that a single linguist
cannot usefully keep track of more than one or maybe two


>
> I don't know if they're humorless or not. I suspect not.
>
> --
> Ron Hardin
> rhhardin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

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