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timc3 on Nov 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linguist claims that English Is a Scandinavian lan...

Think of it more like plant evolution from seeds that travel far and wide, it might be closer to the truth.

skrebbel on Nov 29, 2012 [–]

Um, I don't think I completely understood your analogy. Plants can have multiple parents. Why can't languages?

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