(August 18, 2019 at 10:54 am)Nay_Sayer Wrote: It has to account for its visual counterpart? How? Why?
Are you trying to say English words have to match the spelling we put to them? Because that would be about as far off as one could be describing English.
Anyway, Language is not inherited.
I meant that to define English as a pattern of soundwaves is problematic because English can be said to exist in others forms, such as written, that have an absence of sound.