jar writes:
Natural selection is why they disappear, get new uses.
Which is not what you originally said:
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Natural Selection is pretty obvious, many words and terms simply disappear, do not survive, or get new uses.
jar writes:
The Natural Selection in language is the population that uses the language, that selects what survives and does not survive.
Surely the population (as a whole) is the environment.
Individual attitudes would be like natural selection?
Or would that be more like artificial selection?
And you have still not described what natural selection would be in your analogy.
I suggested one example earlier - surely there are more.
If your original comment was just an asside, then just acknowledge this reply and I'll leave it.