Re: Fantasy Linguistics

From: Jonathan Coxhead <jonathan_at_doves.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 14:26:27 -0700

   The esteemed Julian Lord wrote, in brackets,

| in fact, human language does have some innate component, which could have been called
| instinctive, were this term not *exclusively* reserved for the description of
| animal behaviour

   Are you implying that humans are not animals? Or that there was some point in the evolution of Homo sapiens when all instincts suddenly vanished overnight?

   Or are you talking about Gloranthan humans only, in which case someone is going to reopen the debate over "what is human" again. (E g, does it include tusk riders, giants, dragontooth runners, Delecti, hsunchen, ducks, and how do you tell and what does it mean in any case?)

   But it won't be me!

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