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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Shakespeare's Future
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In article <3309e792.142318455@news.pi.net>,
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@pi.net> wrote:
>On Mon, 17 Feb 1997 19:20:28 GMT, deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von
>Brighoff) wrote:
>
>>The problem with predicting language change is that it's so...
>>unpredictable.  Who could've predicted, a thousand years ago, that
>>millions of Chinese would be speaking the local dialect the tiny island
>>just conquered by the French?  
>
>Something missing here.  "of the barbarian Liao (Khitan) southern
>capital, or that the international lingua franca would have become the
>language of", perhaps?

It took me forever to figure out what you were asking, Miguel.  All I
dropped was an "of"--"the local dialect of the tiny island", i.e. English.

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