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Nostrobino skrev:
Evolution of language is inevitable and natural up to a point, but it's not evolution when a perfectly sensible technical term is, through misunderstanding and/or ignorance, redefined i= n a nonsensical manner. Evolution implies improvement, not deterioration. This is a misconception, both with respect to Darwinian evoloution of species, and with respect to the evolution of language. Evolution does _not_ ipmly "improvement", which is a pretty subjective term. Evolution, both biological and, linguistic, is a combination of stochastic change - what evolutionary biologists call "neutral drift" - and adaptation. And adaptation isn't the same thing as "improvement". One can easily see the new meaning of "prime lens" as an adaptation to the fact that today's photogs know less about the history of photography than photographers uesd to. Jan B=F6hme |
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