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Keyser Soze

On 9/17/16 12:19 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:38:57 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 9/16/16 2:25 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 11:42:34 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

English is a perfect metaphor in many ways for Darwin's Theory of
Evolution, and the language's evolution makes a great argument to use
against the religious simpletons who don't believe in that process.

You be trippin yo.

Why? It's easy enough to show the evolution or changes in language made
by humans over time, both in the language itself and in the meanings and
changes in words. Understanding evolution, after all, requires a mind
able to think at at least the junior high school level, which may be too
advanced for the creationism religious simpletons.

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The "evolution" of a language however is entirely different than the
evolution of a species. In the case of the latter, the species
evolves because less fit members have less success procreating
themselves and vice versa. Language of course does not procreate, and
therefore can not evolve in a Darwinian sense. Quod erat
demonstrandum.

It is important that the brain get enough oxygen 24 hours a day.

It's important to notice a word like "metaphor" and a phrase like
"metaphor in many ways" and what the word metaphor means and how a
metaphor may be used.

Once again, for the language impaired he "English is a perfect
metaphor in many ways for Darwin's Theory of
Evolution."

Not in every way, but in many ways.

So Ebonics will end up dying a death by natural selection.

Anglo-Saxon (Old English) did. Latin has, for the most part. So has
ancient Greek. These old languages evolved into something else and then
for the most part died out. Evolution in action, as it were.