On (31 Mar 98) Frank Masingill wrote to Fredric Rice...
 FR> I would be interested in learning if there are other gods and goddesses
 FR> which were also responsible for the multitude of languages.
 FM>    There's a direct challenge you've set up for yourself.  Perhaps you
 He's saying he would be 'interested in learning'.  It wasn't a
 challenge, it was what looked like a sincere desire to know something
 he doesn't...and, FWIW, I'd like to know, too.  Why are you frothing
 about it?
 FM> could, in all of your superior wisdom give us the specific, scientific
 FM> reason why homo sapiens has been for so long and for the foreseeable
 FM> future locked into a multiplicity of languages?  You are asked to move
 I think Fred was deferring to whatever 'superior wisdom' might be
 lurking in this forum;  do you perchance have some?
 FM> beyond the myth into a straight scientific explanation of this
 FM> phenomena.  Don't get sidetracked into gods and devils and pantheons,
 FM> just give us the straight truth.
 Good grief...he asks a question, and you're all in a dither, demanding
 he answer it HIMSELF.  Are you on some medication?
 FM>    I'm sure you can do that, Frederic or, if you can't, like Andrew
 FM> Cummins, you can call us some names.   You DO agree with Andrew that
 FM> we're all a bunch of numbsculls do you not?  I've yet to see a civil
 FM> post from you yet.  Is there hope?
 There is always hope.  There is not always optimism.  I mention this
 in response to your ...er, 'interesting' final paragraph.
... "N" could be a vowel if enough people believed it.
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