Re: cladistics applied to languages


"Grace Haliburton" <kaosgrace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Of course, because anyone can see how English changes- just look at how
> those awful teeenagers are talking!

But the letters and phonemes were already there. The strokes required to
contstruct letters, and phonemes required to make words, are irreducibly
complex, and therefore were obviously designed. Nobody can show a
published book or recorded speech before the Tower of Babel timeframe.
Were you there?

.

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