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Do you have examples of languages that didn't "develop freely"? If not, this is totally unfalsifiable and unscientific. (In fact, what does it even mean for a
by umanwizard 7y ago
Do you have examples of languages that didn't "develop freely"? If not, this is totally unfalsifiable and unscientific.
(In fact, what does it even mean for a language to "develop"?)
There are many languages around the world that have followed their national evolution despite no contact with Latin, or even with literacy at all.
- JackFr 7y ago> If not, this is totally unfalsifiable and unscientific. I don't think that's a particularly good standard to judge recalling an observation made by Belloc.
- umanwizard 7y agoLet me be more clear: I suspect that regardless of whether Belloc believed it, the assertion is either false or meaningless. The correct way to judge whether I'm write or Belloc is involves pinning down what we mean in a scientific way.