"is the same as"

[Stanley Friesen]

At 01:36 PM 2/6/00 -0700, Dr. John E. McLaughlin wrote:
>Actually, the analogy I used in my last post didn't exactly correlate with
>the argument being made.  A better analogy is that since a few Australians
>know the Star Spangled Banner and all Americans know the Star Spangled
>Banner, then all Americans are Australians!  That's what relating linguistic
>change (Americans) to biological change (Australians) is really like.

Umm, this also misunderstands what I was trying to say!

I *never* intended to imply in any way shape or form that language change
is tied to genetic change!!!  What I was suggesting is that language change
*operates*in a manner that is *similar* to genetic change.

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