Evolution, and 'functional' + 'social'

[Michel DeGraff]

Joan Bresnan wrote:

> Dan, you really ought to read the references before you comment on
> them.  I don't wish to make personal remarks about others on this
> list, but a neutral observer might find DeGraff's Linguistic
> Typology commentary to be an intemperate rant that crosses the
> boundaries of academic civility.

I second Joan Bresnan's point that one should read my article at
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/degraff/darwin/anti-simplest.html
before commenting on it.  For one thing, "academic civility", like
beauty, is often in the eyes of the beholder.

                                 -michel.
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