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JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6123 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian
| Message 9 of 10 18 April 2011 at 2:25am | IP Logged |
Juаn wrote:
...to be discussed this time without reference to subjects "forbidden" on this forum. |
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With all due respect, how is this possible? The question of the origin of language is inextricably linked to the question of the origin of man--and this is exclusively a religious question, i.e., the applicable system of perception is faith.
As Iversen wisely pointed out, the question simply cannot be answered using empiricism or rationalism:
Iverson wrote:
In my opinion it is simply a waste of time to speculate about any specifics of the oldest common ancestor for the contemporary spree of languages. We simply don't have the necessary facts. |
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newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6380 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map
| Message 10 of 10 18 April 2011 at 3:09am | IP Logged |
I'm closing this thread even though many members would find it an interesting discussion. Unfortunately, we keep winding up in the same place.
Please don't start another thread on the some topic.
Edited by newyorkeric on 18 April 2011 at 9:40am
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