jonathan180iq
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Languages evolve, just like everything else.About languages. Don't tell me what I could have said, explain how different language developed. Please include the supporting evidence.
Their adaptations and accepted forms will expand and vary exponentially depending many social and even geographic factors. For example, how many variations of English can you think of?
(North American, King's/Scot/Irish, Australian, South African, etc...)
Now, how many versions of English exist just in the United States? Where did all those variations come from? What happened to the old languages?
How many variations of Spanish can you think of?
Do both of English and Spanish share a common influencing linguistic ancestor? (Latin)
Are both of those parent languages influenced by distinctly unique social and cultural factors?
Have they adapted parts of surrounding languages to create a commonly used vernacular based on geographic proximity?
You can think of the right answer to all of those questions if just spend some time on it.
The English Language that you and I are using to communicate today did not exist just a few hundred years ago. You are aware of this fact, right?
Old English - Wikipedia
I'm going to wager that even though you and I both speak English, which is a subsidiary of AEnglish, that you cannot read this script... (Neither can I)
This is the prologue to Beowulf. Good luck.
Were it not for languages like this, and a few hundred years of linguistic evolution, we wouldn't be communicating using the words that we have today.
Supporting Evidence:
http://www.linguisticsociety.org/sites/default/files/LanguageBegin.pdf
Where and when did language begin? A remarkable new study may have the answer | Dictionary.com Blog
Origin of language - Wikipedia
List of languages by first written accounts - Wikipedia
How did language evolve?
How languages evolve - Alex Gendler
In contrast, you say that a Tower (which has never been verified to have actually existed) was destroyed by God to punish people for their pride and ambition as they attempted to reach heaven, and in the process languages were magically mixed up in order to confuse people so that they could never attempt such things again...
I know that you see the difference between actual study versus reliance on mythological tales. There's nothing wrong with embracing mythology - but if you want to be taken seriously, you have to understand the difference between legend and supported history.
About corn and teosinte. Get an ear of each and plant some of the seeds and tell me what the corn seed produced and what the teosinte seed produced.
On their own they produce corn and teosinte, respectively, because they aren't having any genetic input come from an outside source. Modern corn could not exist were it not for its teosinte and maize parents. Similarly, all of the modern variations of corn that have been created could not exist without the teosinte and maize grand parents. You have the option of eating husked corn today, something that human beings 10,000 years ago had no access to, like modern English, because it did not exist.
If you had actually read those articles and links then you would know that genetic testing has already been done... This is one of the factors that helped solidify the idea that one is the parent of the other. It's the same way in which genetic testing of your DNA compared to your grandparents would show relation.Then grind some of the seeds into powder and get them tested for DNA. Now see if there is a difference .
"From Teosinte to Corn
The genes that control a number of specific traits have been identified.
For example, a gene on chromosome #1 causes the ears of corn to be big and to grow on a few short branches. In contrast, the ears of teosinte are scattered over many small branches.
A gene on the second chromosome causes more rows of kernels to grow, yielding more food per corn plant.
A gene on the fourth chromosome causes corn kernels to have small, soft casings. Teosinte kernels have much larger, harder kernel casings that make them hard to eat."
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