[Corpora-List] Corpus vs Intuition

[Mike Maxwell]

Martin Wynne wrote:
> Dom Widdows wrote:
>> That's just a preamble to my main question - what, if anything, makes
>> language different from any other natural phenomenon? 
> That's an easy one. Language is not a natural phenomenon.

Um, define "natural phenomenon."

-- 
    Mike Maxwell
    "We signify something too narrow when we say:
    Man is a grammatical animal. For although there
    is no animal except man with a knowledge of grammar,
    yet not every man has a knowledge of grammar."
    --Martianus Capella, "The Seven Liberal Arts"

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