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Nah, that’s just not how language tends to evolve, except perhaps for specialized vocabularies that are created to denote specific, technical things for the pur

Nah, that’s just not how language tends to evolve, except perhaps for specialized vocabularies that are created to denote specific, technical things for the purpose of agreement among those involved.

mdp2021 3y ago
> evolve Develop. Awareness, as I mentioned nearby, we could say is required for language to "evolve". Out of entropy, a natural occurrence, language can devolve.
- dmvdoug 3y ago
  Why would awareness be necessary for language evolution? Was it necessary for human evolution?
  - mdp2021 3y ago
    > Why Competence → evolution; incompetence → devolution (increased introduction of randomness).