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

From: Yannis the Macedonian (makedon_at_vip.gr)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 01:26:59 +0300

"Harlan Messinger" <h.messinger@comcast.net> wrote:
.......................................................................
> > 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.

The answer is above.
Yannis
Macedonia, Greece

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