How could languages possibly have evolved???? Surely if languages were to do with man then it would have been more sensible to stick with one language????
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Yes, because the borg assimilates all knowledge.
Are you daring to suggest you know all 1,000,000 plus words in the English Language - I'd be amazed if your vocabulary was 5,000 words.
Regional dialects are far beyond your limited comprehension aren't they?
I've heard that if you stick a group of people on an island all alone, with no means of recording the language-no writing, no audio recordings-and leave them alone for fifty years, the language will have changed drastically.
Besides, I wouldn't say language "evolves" as much as expands and changes. That's a very loose use of evolve.
Well, let's see:
Latin:
Veni, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)
Spanish:
Vine, vi, conquistó
Italian:
Sono venuto, ho visto, ho conquistato
Now tell my that the similarities in those sentences are conincidences.
(Also, neither my Spanish, my Latin, not my Italian is perfect, please forgive any errors.)
We'd be far more likely to be speaking the same language from Albania to Zimbabwe if we'd been "intelligently designed." But of course you fundie morons have that angle covered with your Tower of Babble shit, don't you?
Interesting, though, that you are inferring that man would have been more sensible than sky daddy. On that it is very hard to disagree.
"Surely if languages were to do with man then it would have been more sensible to stick with one language?"
Are you part of the same species as me? Because I haven't known humans to be very "sensible". I'm just saying.
My guess is that if you send beetlequeendiva an email highlighting the differences between "English" and "American" speech she would just forward it to her friends without a moment's reflection on how those differences came to be.
Evidence is all around us. It is our responsibility to set aside our fears and preconceived notions as best as we are able to allow the world to speak to us.
Look at America, look at how English as a language changed and was altered in different parts of our country. And that's just over the course of two hundred years. By simply looking at how the English language varies in different parts of the world we can see how Languages could evolve. There was just one language once but as different groups of people became isolated and went their own way they developed their own words, their own definition for words, and over time new languages were born.
I find it hilarious that this is not obvious even to fundies.
try reading Beowulf in the original. I think its english.
what would Shakespeare do with she's really phat, lol, and groovy ?
An interesting question whose answer stares you right in the face. Even subgroups within a fixed society develop slang and ethnic speech idiosyncrasies. You can observe this every day. As people migrate, speech changes, which is also easy to observe. Open your eyeballs. Sure, it would be nice if we had a single language, but people don't act that way.
Languages evolve all the time, silly! Check out a news report from 60 years ago, and compare it with a news report today. They will sound significantly different.
People WERE sticking to one language. It's just that people lived quite far away from each other before now, and very few traveled that far.
Humans originate from Africa, and as we spread out over the world, our language changed over hundreds of thousands of years , along with our skin-tone and our facial features.
“How could languages possibly have evolved????”
What does ‘gay’ mean, how is it defined? Did it mean the same thing in the Gay Nineties?
How many times does Shakespeare use ‘internet’ in his plays? (We will also accept a sonnet)
Have you ever heard aonyone use ‘MacGuyver’ as a verb? Our car broke but we MacGuyvered a fix with a paperclip.
How about SWAT? Someone lost a game online and ‘Swatted’ their opponent?
What’re the Old English terms for ‘scuba,’ ‘submarine,’ ‘electrocuted,’ or subwoofer’?
Have you ever heard that the Inuit have 200 words for snow? Do you know how all 200 of those translate to Samoan?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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