Sociological Linguistics

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>proto-language at email.msn.com writes:

>They're just different.  Languages change because they >do.

>Pat, aghast: I was with you all the way until this final >sentence. Is this
Zen?

-- common sense, actually.  Languages don't "improve" over time, at least not
the ones we can observe.  They just change.  The process is not random, but
it isn't evolutionary.  It's more comparable to fashion.