Re: dialects vs separate languages

From: Yannis the Macedonian (makedon_at_vip.gr)
Date: 08/18/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 02:04:02 +0300

"Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> wrote:
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> >> The Germans call Czechia Böhmen, which is quite likely to
> >> have the same etymology as Bavaria (Baiovaria). The
> >> Bavarians originally came from Bohemia. Both names (Bavaria
> >> and Bohemia) are derived from the name of the Celtic tribe
> >> of the Boii.
>
> > Do not answer, if you cannot answer.
>
> He could. Apparently you couldn't understand the answer.

he said "both names". I was reffering to the term "Bavarian". An "answer"
usually is not an answer.

Following this case ( Bavaria, Bohemia), I think that we Greeks could allow
SlavoSkopians be called Maketians that was the nick-name of Macedonians (
and both have the same root and meaning, in Greek of course ).
Yannis
Macedonia, Greece

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