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From: hinsenk@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Hinsen Konrad)
Subject: Re: Anglais Adieu!
In-Reply-To: dg@lambek.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de's message of 14 Feb 1995 09:19:41 GMT
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In article <DG.95Feb14101941@lambek.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de> dg@lambek.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de (Dale Gerdemann) writes:

   It may seem to you that Esperanto and French are evolving in the
   direction of greater regularity, but then how did irregular languages
   evolve in the first place?

I remember reading somewhere that one origin of irregularities has
been the desire of certain groups of people to distinguish their
speech from that of others, thereby creating a means of identification.

I have added sci.lang to the group list; hopefully someone from there
knows more about this.

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