that doesn't always happen, either. have you ever heard the question, "what's the difference between a dialect and a language"? there are many places where developing a unique idiolect is valued over linguistic homogeny. its only empires that want it so badly.
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sure. but we're not speaking German or Chinese.
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what point are you trying to make
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speciation is nebulous at various points, but it's still a very lively driving force, even at the most cultural of levels.
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speciation isn't the reason we're speaking english, colonialism is
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speciation is the reason English and German aren't the same thing.
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What on earth are you talking about? Not every variational factor can be talked about in terms of speciation. Moreover, what is important here is not the diversity of natural languages but the very internal logic-computational mechanics of language itself which is invariant.
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Social darwinism is strange. If these are actually the most intellectually "fit" concepts, why are they unpopular, not only among the relevant specialties they claim dominion over but among biologists as well? Oh, right, it's the Cathedral, suppressing the truth like the Masons.
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You're misunderstanding. Whatever concepts are good at spreading will spread. 'Good at spreading' doesn't necessarily mean true, it only requires getting the limbic juices flowing in the
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Well, someday I hope to have access to the higher science, unencumbered by the monkey brain, accessible only to NRx bloggers, that is somehow out of reach of real-life expert scientists who somehow fail to recognize the virtue of decrepit ideas.
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My sir, you finally completed the Manhattan project of twitter.
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