From: H.M. Hubey
Message: 421
Date: 2003-02-22
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:33:53 -0500, "H.M. Hubey"Of course, that does not violate any laws of thermo.
<hubeyh@...> wrote:
>Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>>
>> That would violate the second law of thermodynamics.
>
>How so?
As you say: "Over long periods, it is likely that all will suffer
change". In fact, the period doesn't need to be that very long (from
a historical perspective), and "likely" is rather weakly worded.
"Nearly certain" is more like it.
Of course different languages change at different paces. But change
they do.
And for linguistics, we have no way of knowing what languages do in isolation. As far as can
see some change rapidly and some don't.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...
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