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From: dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu (David Swanson)
Subject: Re: Language difficulty/variation
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In article <4tgp36$g2j@panix2.panix.com>
gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch) writes:

> Rather than say that all languages are equally complex, I
> think it's truer to say that we do not possess the means to
> meaningfully compare the complexity of natural languages.


Yeah.  Yeah.  Yeah.  We're unworthy.  It's beyond our ken.  Mysterious
ways and all that.  Oooh.  I like it.

David

"Heideggerian hope comes into question." J.D.
