Re: Is 'comparative linguistics' just a genocidal 'scientific' joke?

On Nov 12, 12:07 am, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:55:48 -0800, "Peter T. Daniels"
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On Nov 11, 11:00 pm, "John Atkinson" <johna...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...

The ancestral unity of all human languages is shown

"Shown"? Certainly not in the sense of "proved".
Possibly in the sense of "made slightly more likely".

Made undeniable.

Not at all. I find the argument quite unconvincing.

Ok, what's _your_ explanation for the universal acquirability of any
human language by any human infant?

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