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To: Netheron
Oddly enough, Esperanto, an intelligently designed language, has not caught on. Maybe designing language in an ad-hoc manner has some real advantages over pre-planning it?

Esperanto is to languages what communism is to economics.

20 posted on 11/11/2005 5:55:32 AM PST by JCEccles
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To: JCEccles
Esperanto is to languages what communism is to economics.

That was my point. Just because a language or a DNA sequence LOOKS ad-hoc, doesn't mean that it isn't intelligently designed. Truely great design may conform to Plato's forms, but that doesn't mean that the form will be anything close to easily apparent. We should be humble both in our ability to design and our ability to recognize it.

25 posted on 11/11/2005 7:18:51 AM PST by Netheron
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