Darwin-L Message Log 4:41 (December 1993)

Academic Discussion on the History and Theory of the Historical Sciences

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<4:41>From CRAVENS@macc.wisc.edu  Thu Dec  9 22:17:53 1993

Date: Thu, 09 Dec 93 22:20 CDT
From: Tom Cravens <CRAVENS@macc.wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: extinction and speciation
To: darwin-l@ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu

Lest there be any misunderstanding, there has been no claim put forward
here that linguistic change is decay. It's merely change. Spanish,
Portuguese, French, Italian, etc. aren't decadent Latin; they're varieties
of modern Latin.

Tom Cravens
cravens@macc.wisc.edu
cravens@wiscmacc.bitnet

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