Re: If you were to design a language, how many vowels and consonants would you use?

On Dec 14, 1:44 pm, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:37:19 -0800 (PST), "Jens S. Larsen"
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Brian M. Scott:
"Jens S. Larsen":
Nathan Sanders:
Dialect continua are synchronic, not diachronic.
Oh come on, Beavis! Try to google "Indo-European dialects".
Try understanding how the term is actually used. The
expression is almost synonymous with 'Indo-European
languages', and the sense here is still synchronic (at a
gross level).
What's the difference between "synchronic at a gross
level" and "diachronic"?

Are you really that stupid?

Hey, that's my line!

Let's see; do you understand
the difference between 'A is an ancestor of B' and 'A and B
have a common ancestry'? Do you understand that in the
latter case A and B need not be contemporaries?

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