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freshhawk
16y ago
Fair enough, in that case it's certainly not a "theory", the correct term would be "hypothesis" or "conjecture". I understood what you meant by "free" but you seem to be discounting the high cost of making that choice. You can examine the l
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freshhawk
16y ago
Yeah, yeah, the status quo can always be defended with a market analogy. Step one to making this kind of statement: give some evidence that the language ecosystem actually works as a free market. First of all changing languages is almost al
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freshhawk
16y ago
Do you know that to be true? Is talent at teaching really normally distributed across both genders? It's completely possible that they are not. If they aren't then the neuroscience tells us that it's most likely cultural rather than biologi