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From: hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu (H. M. Hubey)
Subject: Re: What are Scythians?
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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 12:24:00 GMT
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sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen) writes:


>another, less prestigous one, even without massive population
>movements - perhaps a language associated with wealth from
>trade, and with political power, through chiefly marriages,
>could become the predominant language of a trade zone].


It could just as easily arise as a piding language for trade
perhaps using vocabulary of one language, syntax of another, and
then spread and become creolized and then restabilise, etc. 
And this could have happened so many times in 200,000 years
that we might even start to think of simulated annealing as a
model of language change instead of "it just happens naturally"


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						-- Mark---
....we must realize that the infinite in the sense of an infinite totality, 
where we still find it used in deductive methods, is an illusion. Hilbert,1925
