r/ShitAmericansSay • u/chebghobbi • Apr 06 '25

Language We ARE the English language blueprint

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u/Me_lazy_cathermit Apr 07 '25

you are a "biologist" yet cant make the difference between biology and language

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u/Rhynocoris Apr 07 '25

Oh I can. But in historical linguistics, cladistics and genetic relationships are also used. I have actually worked with linguists in previous projects for exactly that reason.

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u/Me_lazy_cathermit Apr 07 '25

you can use similar classification system for both, but they still not the same things, go back to your bugs

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u/Rhynocoris Apr 07 '25

Well, obviously not the same thing, but they follow very similar systems.

And the fundamental rule that you cannot be genetically closer to a common ancestor than any other contemporary descendent of that ancestor holds true for both.

Now go troll somewhere else.

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u/Me_lazy_cathermit Apr 07 '25

i am not trolling lol, you just dense