(July 14, 2012 at 6:34 pm)Hovik Wrote:(July 14, 2012 at 6:29 pm)Polaris Wrote: Language was not always written down and therefore the study of it is not necessarily a science, which deals with the study of the material. Science is about the physical...it is what separates itself from the realm of myth and its many guises.
Well, you'd be wrong. Linguistics primarily studies speech, not written language. However, because we can't actively study the speech of people who are long dead, we use linguistic methods to analyze written language to give us insights about the speech of those who wrote the documents. Linguistics works hand-in-hand with archaeology and anthropology to determine past life-ways and language use.
It's really kind of funny how completely wrong you are sometimes.
For someone who claims to be a linguist, you need to read the dictionary.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
