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    No, YOU are bang out of order.

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    I'll bang every last one of you out of order. Just line right up...
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    If you're going to do it out of order, why do we need to line up?

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    So there's an order to bang out of, duh.
    I don't think so, therefore I'm probably not.

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    Quote Originally posted by Inner Stickler View post
    So there's an order to bang out of, duh.
    Exactly. Just for that, you'll go first. Or something.
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    Ivan look up Emergence on Wiki, there you will find a process that much better explains the type of change over time you are looking for.

    The problem you are facing is you are using a common term to describe a scientific process. But that term is already used to describe a completely different scientific process. This is compounded by the fact that wile discussing "language change over time", you kept finding articles about "how human ability to use language has changed over time" precisely because you where using the term evolution improperly.

    Try googling "complexity theory and language change" or "emergence of language change". Don't expect to find to much though. Complexity theory is still a fairly new science and I don't know if any linguist have tried to use it as a model for language change. Although it would seem to me that language change is an excellent example of the kind of thing complexity theory is really good at.
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