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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 20:54:02 GMT
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hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu (H. M. Hubey) writes:

>It could just as easily arise as a piding language for trade
				    ^^^^^

I noticed that a lot of words have become scrambled not just 
the one above. I was posting from home and had a hard time
getting the thing to work correctly. Sorry.


>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"


And I might add 200,000 years is conservative. 
--
						-- 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
