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

From: Harlan Messinger (hmessinger.removethis_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:44:50 -0400

Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote:

>uiesperanto@aol.com (Dmitri) wrote:
>
>>>From: "Peter T. Daniels" grammatim@worldnet.att.n
>>
>>> I'm talking to mr lambrou
>>>
>>>No you're not, because "mr lambrou" doesn't read sci.lang.
>>
>>He's posting here; if he posts, he reads.
>
>He's reading articles in some newsgroup that have been crossposted to
>that newsgroups and to sci.lang and others. You trimmed the newsgroups
>list to sci.lang alone, so it wasn't posted to the newsgroup where
>Jason is reading, so Jason won't see it.

Actually, it looks as though ALL your messages go to sci.lang only.
But most of this thread has been cross-posted to several newsgroups,
including the ones that Jason, Yannis, Anastassios, and so forth are
posting from. (They don't read sci.lang.) Either your newsreader
removes all groups other than the one you're posting from, or your
news provider doesn't allow you to post to the other groups.

Arpad, who originated the thread in sci.lang alone, added
alt.news.macedonia and alt.language.latin at level 5 of the thread on
August 9. Yannis, presumably writing from alt.news.macedonia, added
alt.macedonia.is.greece, alt.news.fyrom, and
alt.skopjea.is.not.macedonia on August 14. But every one of your
messages has gone to sci.lang only. 

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