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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also english is probably the worst argument in favor of speciation. its so fundamentally a creole..
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any example would probably do. in Brazil we speak Portuguese, and it's pretty obvious that while Spanish is a close cousin, it's still clearly not Portuguese.
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I think you've changed the goalposts at this point. my issue was specifically with the tree model of language emergence - that languages resemble biological taxonomy. this theory isn't used any more because it fails to explain the hybridity present in every language
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you can have trees with lateral connections. that happens even in biology (although much less often)
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So much lateral connections
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love 2 Lateral-y Connect across the twitter-thread trees
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My mom's history is laterally connected to his.
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