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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
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 Posted - 12/13/2008 : 18:50:57 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by derek
for instance babel gives a reason for such a difference in cultures and language. thats the only one off the top of my head.
if i read lord of the rings or someone's biography and live my life according to it i would be irrational and crazy.
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Funny you should mention both these in the same post. Tolkien was a professor of English. But he was also a linguist. Having used his knowledge of old and middle English and their development to further process languages with which he was familiar to create elvish and other languages found within The Lord of the Rings. Any linguist who wants to drive themselves crazy probably has the skills to follow the development of any language from it's predecessor to it's current version and see where languages have changed over time to become the differing languages we now recognize. Languages are constantly developing from pidgin languages to creole languages to a formally recognized language constantly. Texmex is currently a pidgin language. 'Creole' in LA (US) is a creole language that has stabilized from it's pidgin origin of French, Cheyenne, and English.
There are worse things upon which to base your belief system than LotR. At least in this book there is concern for the environment, right action, and persisting in the face of adversity. |
...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
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Bneiharash
New Member
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Posted - 12/18/2008 : 13:08:09 [Permalink]
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Faith & reason... th'kz all for talking the real language
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i wan't to know what is the better way to see the most important in all the thingz you say.
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 12/18/2008 : 14:25:34 [Permalink]
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God sux 'cause you cant experiment on her.
Science rulez.
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"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 12/19/2008 : 01:52:28 [Permalink]
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Faith & reason... th'kz all for talking the real language
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i wan't to know what is the better way to see the most important in all the thingz you say.
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Come back, try again, but this time use actual sentences. It's impossible to have a conversation with you if you are incapable of expressing simple thoughts with words.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Creationist here
