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At 09:14 AM 3/2/2001 -0500, Bib Fitzke wrote:<br>
>Or, perhaps, when enough of the exceptions coalesce to form a new
rule<br>
>of their own; sort of a "rule within a rule". A type of
speciation?<br>
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<font size=4>"Speciation" presupposes some sort of common
evolutionary history, a sort of divergence after evolving together. Would
that be the case here?<br>
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Sali.<br>
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