>>1056031
>Thoughts?
It's fucking Rousseau. Why even bother.

Rousseau fucking sucks. This is bad linguistics at its finest.

>>1056085
>>1056519
ITT stupid niggers

I think it's something to do with people living in hot countries living comfy lives.

>18th century understanding of linguistics
Just ignore

Nothing we didn't already know. Of course southern europeans are more cultured and human. Can we move on?

>linguistics
Truly the faggiest science

>>1056031
>Thoughts?

Typical French philosopher, reducing philosophy to a battle of wits.

>>1056652
>French
literally kill youself

>>1056031
Rousseau is terrible and ruined various disciplines for centuries with his bullshit.

>>1056669
>literally kill youself

I won't.

>linguistics of a spoiled country cuckold who thought all languages spontaneously generated

>>1056686
>muh language is a social construct

>>1056085
This.

>>1056694
languages didn't spontaneously generate, they're all evolved from at least one and at most a small number of original languages which human ancestors had before they migrated all around

>>1057251
Evolution IS a spontaneous generation though.

>>1059414
Did your mum drop you as a baby?

>>1059524
Anon, what is evolution?

>>1059525
>People in England once spoke old English, then one day they decided to speak modern English.

>>1059539
That's not defining evolution.

>>1059525
>>1059539
You both understand that it takes a gradual amount of time but somehow don't see that you both know that??

>>1059550
I think >>1057251 conflates "spontaneous generation" with something like essentialist creationism.

>>1059550
>>1059541
I was explaining to a anon that spontaneous generation is not evolution. You could say that evolution is a serious of spontaneous generations, but at that point, why would you not just call it gradual change?

>>1059562
Series, not serious

>>1059562
There is nothing in the notion of spontanous generation which entails immediacy.

>>1059566
>Spontaneous - performed or occurring as a result of a sudden impulse or inclination and without premeditation or external stimulus.
>sudden
>doesn't imply immediacy
Unless there is another definition of spontaneous generation? The only one I found was to do with biology.

>>1059607
>coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned.

This definition seems more consistent with the more philosophical discussions of the concept (such as in Hayek).