Re: dialects vs separate languages (was: The most Latin of Romance languages?)

From: Harlan Messinger (h.messinger_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:47:15 -0400

"Yannis the Macedonian" <makedon@vip.gr> wrote in message
news:4124af7c@news.sch.gr...
> "Harlan Messinger" <h.messinger@comcast.net> wrote:
> > > My words are about "important" names.
> >
> > Since you have failed to address the current flurry of naming examples
in
> > any manner that indicates what *you* think the difference is between
> > "important" and "unimportant" in this context, I conclude that names are
> > "important" when they are consistent with your position and
"unimportant"
> > when they show your position to be flawed.
>
>
> And you disagree on this, right ??
> Well, can you tell us when a name is important ??

*You're* the one using the characterization of "important" to distinguish
one set of place names from another. I suspect all of us want to know what
*you* mean by it.

> Is there anything else, BUT PEOPLE, that makes names important or
> unimportant ??

Unless you mean Bavaria has people and England doesn't, you still haven't
explained what you are using the word "important" to mean.

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